Thanks to Elon Musk, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been effectively shut down. As a result, its global funding of ostensibly independent non-profits has been exposed. While many did valuable humanitarian work, some openly carried out influence operations and subversion against foreign governments. Such groups – not the least are those targeting…
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world. Kari Lake was a television news anchor in Phoenix for nearly…
(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said Lake will…
LONDON: China has been yet again alleged of orchestrating ‘government-backed attacks‘ on a news organisation from Britain being run by Hong Kong journalists.Although Chinese authorities have denied any association with the event, analysts believe this case highlights that Hong Kong journalism professionals are facing severe difficulties at home and overseas.The Chaser, a news website by…