An investigation reveals how the U.S. State Department, under the Trump administration, is funding a $1 million "independent journalism" consortium in Europe to produce reporting explicitly aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives and right-wing political interests.
But then it wouldn’t be independent anymore, would it?
ostensibly independent journalists all over the world who have been receiving funding from the US government over the last ~75 years but want to call out this instance of it for being not-independent:
Welcome to the lie of most journalism
Indeed