Politics - Citizens for Free Speech

USAID Funded Massive ‘News’ Platform, Extending ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ To Billions Worldwide

February 17, 2025 Tyler Durden via Zero Hedge 0

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

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Can Brent Bozell and Kari Lake ‘Make Media Great Again’ at Broadcast Agencies?

January 30, 2025 Fred Lucas via The Daily Signal 1

Days into his second term, Trump already appears intent on moving quickly to refocus USAGM on its mission of promoting freedom and democracy around the world. On Tuesday, he tapped L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center, to be the agency’s new CEO. In December, Trump announced Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor from Arizona, as his nominee to lead Voice of America, one of the entities USAGM oversees.

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Why Europe fears free speech…A war of repression is under way

January 18, 2025 Wolfgang Munchau 2

We all know the old joke: when a European referendum delivers the “wrong” outcome, the country votes again until they get it “right”. The EU thought this would be the case after Brexit. But so far, no one’s laughing.

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Overwhelming Majority of Britons Say Yes to Fresh Inquiry Into Child Rapes by Grooming Gangs

January 13, 2025 Oliver JJ Lane via Breitbart News 0

Over three-quarters of Britons support a fresh investigation into child sex abuse by what are called predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs, something the labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has set itself hard against.

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Nikki Haley Calls For ALL social media users be ID’d

November 28, 2023 Harriet Alexander 0

Nikki Haley sparked a firestorm on Tuesday by saying that the way to reduce antisemitism and misinformation online was to force social media users to reveal their true identity – a proposal some said was fascist.

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Jonathan Turley: The Indispensable Right

November 28, 2023 Jonathan Turley 0

As many of you know, I have written about free speech and constitutional rights for decades in law reviews and journals. In that sense, this book has been thirty years in the making in offering a single, comprehensive treatment of a right that Justice Brandeis called “indispensable.

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