Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0 - 2020-06-18

Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0 June 18, 2020, Alex Ward, Vox

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Earlier this month, a Steve Bannon ally and conservative filmmaker appointed by President Donald Trump took over running the vast global network of news agencies funded and operated by the US government.

Within hours of introducing himself to employees, he'd purged four top officials — and critics are calling it a blatant effort to turn America's state-run news organizations into Trump-friendly propaganda outlets.

But Steve Bannon, who was deeply involved with getting Trump to nominate his ally Michael Pack, sees the ousters as a reckoning for an agency that he believes has been too soft on covering China.

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