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The plan aims to support right-wing European groups opposing content moderation laws like the UK's Online Safety Act and the EU's Digital Services Act, officials said.
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US funding for MAGA think tanks in Europe will backfire
The Trump administration is engaged in self-defeating hypocrisy by moving to fund think tanks in Europe that will promote its ideological worldview. The Financial Times reported yesterday that the State Department intends to provide financial grants and other support to European initiatives which challenge European governments’ policies on free speech and promote MAGA values. This strategy will waste taxpayer money, while alienating allied gover…
The US State Department may fund think tanks and charities linked to Donald Trump's MAGA policies across Europe to spread Washington's position and counter "the threat to free speech," the Financial Times reports. Sarah Rogers, a senior official at the department, met in December with key figures from Nigel Farage's Eurosceptic party, Reform UK, and leaders of radical right-wing think tanks to discuss funding to spread "American values." The FT …
Trump administration is funneling money to MAGA think tanks in Europe
Donald Trump's State Department is reportedly set to start funneling money into European "think tanks and charities," according to the Financial Times, in order to spread the administration's preferred MAGA values worldwide.Sources who spoke to the Financial Times indicated that the plan was worked on during a recent trip to Europe by Sarah Rogers, a senior State Department official. During the trips, Rogers reportedly met with "influential righ…
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