The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has reportedly rescinded its March 15 letters terminating its grants for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open Technology Fund (OTF). The reversals come amid mounting legal challenges from USAGM’s grantees and recent court decisions in their favor. On March 14, U.S. PresidentContinue Reading
A month ago, Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire “special government employee” who isn’t running the not-actually-a-department Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) behind a sweeping effort to downsize the U.S. government, tweeted “Yes, shut them down” on X, a platform he owns, in regard to RFE/RL and Voice of America (VOA).Continue Reading
In December, at the third People’s Kurultai, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov criticized foreign funding of media and NGOs. He repeated complaints that media “spread false information, look for negativity, and undermine the reputation of others” and urged the U.S. State Department to directly fund the Kyrgyz government rather than mediaContinue Reading
