US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally-funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”.

A White House statement said the order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”, and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media railing against the “leftist”, “partisan” VOA.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Leftist and partisan are not how I, an actual leftist, would describe the various propaganda outlets scattered around the world such as VOA.

    It’s a cia op. And literally always was. Since 1942 when it was established.

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        11 hours ago

        They correctly called out VOA for what it is. You pointing out that they made an account on the lemmy.ml instance adds nothing.

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      19 hours ago

      Always love when someone throws out the no true scotsman fallacy. Nobody but trump is saying this anyway.