This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump cut major funding to USAID amid revelations the organization financed groups, including some media outlets, that engaged in smear campaigns and censorship against dissident voices.<\/p>\n
\u201cUSAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, \u2018Internews Network\u2019 (IN), which has \u2018worked with\u2019 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and \u2018training\u2019 over 9000 journalists (2023 figures).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/usaid-funded-internews-network-censorship-wikileaks\/?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n WikiLeaks is a multinational organization founded by Julian Assange that specializes \u201cin the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The USAID gave roughly $473 million to the \u201cInternews Network,\u201d a secretive global non-governmental organization that allegedly supported online censorship efforts, according to documents released by WikiLeaks. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump cut major … Continue reading