I linked to this story in my previous article on elections in Ukraine, but I think it deserves a full post all by itself.
The Free Press has a piece on Internews and its influence on the coverage of the war in Ukraine that really deserves attention, going into deeper depth on USAID’s control of the flow of information both within Ukraine and from Ukraine to the United States.
I have written a few times about Internews, which has sucked up about half a billion dollars in USAID money to fund “independent” journalism around the world, making that journalism as “independent” as a PR flack at a White House podium. It is good to see that The Free Press did a deeper dive into how the US government has been shaping the propaganda coming out of the war.
USAID funded the vast majority of ‘independent’ media in Ukraine. What American taxpayers don’t realize is…
