Announcing the move, staff at the outlet said ‘authoritarian regimes are already celebrating’ its potential demise.
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r/worldnews gonna lose some users as well
And their entire mod team
Still really funny to me that Ghislaine Maxwell was a power user there
you're fucking kidding, that's confirmed fact?
I doubt it is confirmed, but the user Maxwellhouse (or something very similar) that was regularly posting front page material years back to worldnews was noticed to not be posting during times when Ghislaine was in jail/otherwise unavailable
lol get fucked. i hope trump's idiocy in shutting these down will result in a lot of anti imperialist sentiment rebounding from decades of suppression. fucking scum.
"Radio Free Asia halting news operations"
They had a news operation? I thought they just wrote fiction
news is a very popular genre of fiction in the west
I refuse to like Trump. I refuse. No matter how hard he tries, he's not gonna win me over.
Critical support to Donald Trump in his heroic struggle to demolish the AmeriKKKan Empire.
Comrade Trump "drains the swamp" in mysterious ways.
I'm authoritarian regimes celebrating 
JDPON DON
Can't wait to gradually see a whole lot more Americans say "I haven't seen any news about China being bad in a while, China must be a pretty nice place now!"
Oh no, how will anti-vaccine misinformation be artificially spread and cause mass deaths of innocent foreign civilians now??
CIA got a lot of slack to pick up smh
The CIA is gradually losing all their propaganda arms and fronts to do the dirty work. Before Trump's reign ends, they'll eventually just be an organization that gathers statistics on countries.
Comrade JDPON Don does what JFK could not.
On at least two things, this is true.
trump unironically draining the swamp smdh what the fuck
RFE/Radio Liberty, which went through its own round of furloughs earlier this year, said this week that it received its last round of federal funding in September and its news services are continuing for now.
“We plan to continue reaching our audiences for the foreseeable future,” it said.
It’s not immediately clear why RFA and RFE/Radio Liberty – which share the same governing and funding structure, but are based in the US and Europe, respectively – are taking different approaches.
huh
If I remember correctly, when the US said it would stop funding RFE, a few European countries stepped in to make sure it could continue operating with their funding. 🤡 Total sheep dogs.
Thank you comrade Trump
Critical support to Trump for killing an important part of the imperialist propaganda machine I guess
This authoritarian regime (my house) is celebrating it's potential demise (eating leftover Halloween candy, and watching horror movies)
Huge W.
😔