O eurodeputado do Grupo ESN, Petr Bystron, comentou:<\/p>\n
\u201cEstamos a falar de milhares de milh\u00f5es que Bruxelas aparentemente tenciona investir \u2014 sem qualquer supervis\u00e3o democr\u00e1tica real \u2014 numa nova infraestrutura de censura e propaganda. Sob o pretexto de \u2018proteger a democracia\u2019, est\u00e1 a ser criada uma vasta m\u00e1quina de subs\u00eddios para plataformas e meios de comunica\u00e7\u00e3o favor\u00e1veis ao governo, enquanto as vozes cr\u00edticas continuam a ser exclu\u00eddas.\u00bb.<\/p>\n
O facto de se esperar agora que os contribuintes europeus preencham a lacuna deixada pelos cortes da USAID constitui uma afronta a quem acredita na verdadeira diversidade dos meios de comunica\u00e7\u00e3o social. Bruxelas arroga-se o direito de decidir quais as informa\u00e7\u00f5es que s\u00e3o \u2018boas\u2019 ou \u2018m\u00e1s\u2019, quais os meios de comunica\u00e7\u00e3o que s\u00e3o \u2018livres\u2019 e quais s\u00e3o \u2018propaganda\u2019. Ao faz\u00ea-lo, a UE est\u00e1 a abandonar definitivamente o livre mercado de ideias.<\/p>\n
Opomo-nos resolutamente a estes planos. Se a Uni\u00e3o Europeia levasse a s\u00e9rio a liberdade de imprensa e de express\u00e3o, toleraria emissoras inconvenientes ou estrangeiras, em vez de investir milhares de milh\u00f5es numa for\u00e7a policial ideol\u00f3gica. A desinforma\u00e7\u00e3o e a propaganda s\u00e3o sempre atribu\u00eddas a terceiros \u2014 no entanto, com este programa, Bruxelas est\u00e1 a institucionalizar o pr\u00f3prio controlo unilateral da opini\u00e3o p\u00fablica.\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