
A consultant to US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States will cancel public contracts with the three global news agencies.
Carrie Lake, a former journalist who has turned into a policy close to Trump, via the X platform, said that the United States should “not anymore to external media companies to inform us of the news.”
In the world, three major news agencies are France Press, the Associated Press and Reuters.
And last month, Lake has become a private adviser to the US World Media Agency, an American public body that supervises a number of media outlets abroad, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Freedom.
“I intervened today to cancel the contracts of the US -cost and unnecessary global media agency with news agencies, including decades of tens of millions of dollars with the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France -Presse,” Lake wrote.
Agence Agence France Presse has been contracted for years with the American media agency’s media to provide it with news, photos and videos.
And billionaire Illon Musk, to which Trump was entrusted with the task of reducing public spending, has explicitly called for the “closing” of both “America’s Voice” and “Free Europe Radio”, considering that it is useless, and the number of its listeners is small and expensive.
Last December, Trump chose Lake to lead the Voice of America Radio, but it has not yet been proven in this position.