Donald Trump’s government A program of mass layoffs in media financed by Washington began on Sunday, two days after the Republican president signed an executive order To fulminate the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM)Entity Manager of America.
“Reporters without borders gives the alarm about the risks facing Usagm staff worldwide, including nine journalists currently imprisoned abroad for their work“, Declared the Organization for the Defense of Freedom of the Press in relation to the measure framed in Trump’s plan to reduce federal government spending.
“The Trump administration sends a chilling signal: Authoritarian regimes such as Beijing and Moscow now have a free way to spread their propaganda without control“, Added the general director of the Oenegé, Thibaut Bruttin.
In his opinion, the decision “betray” the nine Usagm journalists imprisoned in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma, Russia and Vietnamand “leave thousands more without work and in danger.”