As Donald Trump and Elon Musk pushed through plans to temporarily shut down the US Agency for International Development this week, across the world some of the state department’s biggest critics were crowing.
For years, strongmen including Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán have sought to crack down on their countries’ independent news outlets — many supported by USAID grants — through draconian media laws and criminal cases.
Now many of those media organisations are struggling to stay…
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