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The contractors sent an email notifying them of their termination on March 31.
The United States President Donald Trump's President Donald Trump has begun to fire the staff of America's voice (voa) After signing an enforcement order, which puts almost all employees in the government -funded media network on leave.
VOA employees working on a Sunday have received an email, informing them that they have been terminated on March 31.
In the email that was seen by Al Jazeera, the US Global Media Agency (Usagm) said contractors should “end all work immediately” and “do not allow access to access to buildings or agencies.”
“The contractors, including I, at Voice of America, have just received an email informing us that our contracts will be terminated on March 31, 2025,” says Misha Komadovski, a Voa White House correspondent, in a publication of X.
This move came after Trump on Friday signed an enforcement order to effectively eliminate Usagm, which also hosts Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, along with six other federal agencies.
In a statement, the White House said this move “to ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda” and listed a series of criticism of VOA by conservative media and lawmakers.
The Trump Directive is the latest in a series of moves to retrieve condemnation from groups of intercession for media freedom, including reporters without borders and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists marking the last line of “dystopic”.
The Trump Administration started last month Entertaining the Associated Press The News Agency for its refusal to use the Gulf of Persian as a name for the Gulf of Mexico and has announced that it will decide which journalists and media organizations can participate in media pools.
Voa and other US-funded retail outlets have long been confronted with allegations in liberal biases by Trump and its allies, including King Elon Musk, who claims last month that radio and television operators are made up of “radical left-wing people who talk to themselves.”
During Trump's first term, the White House accused Voa of “talking about America's opponents – not about her citizens.”
In 2020, Federal Judge ruled that the Trump -appointed USAG Executive Director Michael had acted unconstitutional, investigating his journalists because of their alleged biases.
Brian Padden, a former head of the VOA Bureau in South Korea and Indonesia, who retired in 2020, said it was Galovo to hear the Trump administration accuse VOA of distributing anti-aid propaganda.
“In the course of my reporting, I was shot, rude and even almost beheaded by an exploding helicopter in eastern Ukraine,” Padden said on Facebook on Facebook on Sunday.
“In 2014, I was harassed by pro-Russian activists or fighters in Ukraine, who accused me and my VOA television team of being pro-American propaganda agents. Both Musk and Russian fighters are wrong. Voa does not make propaganda. VOA reports the news, which includes the prospect of both supporters and the critics of the president. “
Since the executive order on Friday, Voa broadcasts have been subsided or replaced by music in many regions, including parts of Asia and the Middle East.
Established during World War II to fight propaganda from Nazi Germany, VOA operates more than 40 languages and claims a weekly audience of over 354 million people worldwide.
