
A adviser to US President Donald Trump announced that the United States will cancel public contracts with 3 global news agencies, the French Press Agency, Reuters and the Associated Press.
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.”
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 the French Press Agency,” Leck wrote on Thursday.
The French Press Agency said that it has been contracting for years with the American media agency’s media to provide it with news, photos and videos.
And billionaire Illon Musk, whom 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 expensive and inexpensive, and the number of its listeners is few.