Petr Bystron, ledamot av Europaparlamentet f\u00f6r ESN-gruppen, kommenterade:<\/p>\n
\u201cVi talar om miljarder som Bryssel uppenbarligen avser att pumpa in \u2013 utan n\u00e5gon verklig demokratisk kontroll \u2013 i en ny infrastruktur f\u00f6r censur och propaganda. Under sken av att \u2018skydda demokratin\u2019 skapas en omfattande subventionsmaskin f\u00f6r regeringsv\u00e4nliga plattformar och medier, medan kritiska r\u00f6ster forts\u00e4tter att utest\u00e4ngas.\u201d.<\/p>\n
Att europeiska skattebetalare nu f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntas fylla det tomrum som USAID:s nedsk\u00e4rningar l\u00e4mnat efter sig \u00e4r en f\u00f6rol\u00e4mpning mot alla som tror p\u00e5 \u00e4kta mediem\u00e5ngfald. Bryssel tar sig r\u00e4tten att avg\u00f6ra vilken information som \u00e4r \u2018bra\u2019 eller \u2018d\u00e5lig\u2019, vilka medier som \u00e4r \u2018fria\u2019 och vilka som \u00e4r \u2018propaganda\u2019. Genom detta \u00f6verger EU definitivt den fria id\u00e9marknaden.<\/p>\n
Vi kommer att mots\u00e4tta oss dessa planer med full kraft. Om Europeiska unionen verkligen tog press- och yttrandefriheten p\u00e5 allvar skulle den tolerera obekv\u00e4ma eller utl\u00e4ndska s\u00e4ndare ist\u00e4llet f\u00f6r att pumpa in miljarder i en ideologisk polisstyrka. Desinformation och propaganda skylls alltid p\u00e5 andra \u2013 men med detta program institutionaliserar Bryssel sj\u00e4lv en ensidig kontroll av opinionen.\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