The U.S. Agency for Global Media, its acting director Victor Morales, and Special Adviser Kari Lake placed over 1,300 employees on leave and cut funding for several news services last Saturday. Those actions violated the First Amendment and the laws by which Congress authorized and funded Voice of America, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.
The lawsuit seeks a court order reversing the decision to shutter the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which funds VOA and other media outlets like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia.
“In many parts of the world a crucial source of objective news is gone, and only censored state-sponsored news media is left to fill the void,“ the plaintiffs wrote.
Since its inception to combat Nazi propaganda at the height of World War Two, Voice of America (VOA) grew to become an international media broadcaster, operating in more than 40 languages online, on radio and television, spreading U.S. news narratives into countries lacking a free press.
Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia had more than 425 million listeners every week before they were shut down, according to the complaint.
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