{"id":69432,"date":"2025-02-11T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/11\/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:00:09","slug":"trumps-aid-cuts-will-lead-to-a-surge-of-propaganda-say-press-freedom-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69432","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s aid cuts will lead to a surge of propaganda, say press freedom groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of USAid funds will sow \u2018chaos and confusion\u2019 and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misinformation and playing into the hands of state propagandists, media organisations have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/04\/what-is-usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk-foreign-aid-freezes\">suspended billions of dollars<\/a> in projects supported by USAid, including more than <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/usa-trump-s-foreign-aid-freeze-throws-journalism-around-world-chaos\">$268m<\/a> (\u00a3216m) allocated to support \u201cindependent media and the free flow of information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/11\/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of USAid funds will sow \u2018chaos and confusion\u2019 and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF Donald Trump\u2019s foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,246,1391,1652,415,221,59,448,669,238,212,82,672,54,61,930,47,3251,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-americas","category-belarus","category-colombia","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-global-development","category-iran","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-usaid","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69442,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69432\/revisions\/69442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}