Petr Bystron, d\u00e9put\u00e9 europ\u00e9en du groupe ENS, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 :<\/p>\n
\u201c Il est question de milliards que Bruxelles a apparemment l\u2019intention d\u2019investir \u2014 sans aucun v\u00e9ritable contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique \u2014 dans une nouvelle infrastructure de censure et de propagande. Sous pr\u00e9texte de \u2018 prot\u00e9ger la d\u00e9mocratie \u2019, une vaste machine \u00e0 subventions est mise en place au profit des plateformes et des m\u00e9dias favorables au gouvernement, tandis que les voix critiques continuent d\u2019\u00eatre exclues.<\/p>\n
Le fait que les contribuables europ\u00e9ens soient d\u00e9sormais cens\u00e9s combler le vide laiss\u00e9 par les coupes budg\u00e9taires de l\u2019USAID constitue un affront pour quiconque croit en une v\u00e9ritable diversit\u00e9 des m\u00e9dias. Bruxelles se permet de d\u00e9cider quelles informations sont \u2018 bonnes \u2019 ou \u2018 mauvaises \u2019, quels m\u00e9dias sont \u2018 libres \u2019 et lesquels rel\u00e8vent de la \u2018 propagande \u2019. Ce faisant, l\u2019UE abandonne d\u00e9finitivement le libre march\u00e9 des id\u00e9es.<\/p>\n
Nous nous opposerons r\u00e9solument \u00e0 ces projets. Si l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne prenait au s\u00e9rieux la libert\u00e9 de la presse et d\u2019expression, elle tol\u00e9rerait les diffuseurs g\u00eanants ou \u00e9trangers au lieu d\u2019injecter des milliards dans une force de police id\u00e9ologique. On attribue toujours la d\u00e9sinformation et la propagande aux autres \u2014 pourtant, avec ce programme, Bruxelles institutionnalise elle-m\u00eame un contr\u00f4le unilat\u00e9ral de l\u2019opinion. \u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ESN Group MEP Petr Bystron commented: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about billions that Brussels apparently intends to pour\u2014without any real democratic oversight\u2014into a new censorship and propaganda infrastructure. Under the guise of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"esn_date_approx":true,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-currency","tag-press-release"],"acf":{"activity_type":"","activity_location":"","related_mep":null,"news_location":"","news_byline":"ESN Group Press Office","news_readtime":"1 min read","news_intro":"During a meeting of the EU\u2019s special committee \u201cEuropean Democracy Shield,\u201d extensive investments in media and fact-checking projects were proposed, ostensibly to protect freedom of the press and expression within the European Union. Funding on the order of billions is to be made available for these media outlets\u2014also as a reaction to recent cutbacks at the U.S. development agency USAID.","news_photo":2716,"news_photo_caption":""},"yoast_head":"\n