The lawsuit filed Monday accuses the United States Agency for Global Media – which oversees VOA – and its leaders of trying to turn the newsroom “into a partisan mouthpiece” for the Trump administration, “requiring that it publish White House talking points nearly word-for-word, and disseminating images of President Trump in the style of Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il.” “All of this violates the federal statutes that govern VOA, and the Constitution itself; and all of this undermines the credibility of the United States in the eyes of the world.” “Frustrated in that effort by the courts, the Administration has now taken a different tack: to use its governmental authority to control VOA’s substantive output – the content of its broadcasts and publications – by suppressing coverage of events that it wishes had not occurred, and, separately, by directing that its own partisan messages be passed off to viewers and listeners as ‘news,’” Monday’s lawsuit states.
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Published at: 2026-03-23 23:46:54
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