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Report: US to Launch Portal to Bypass EU Content Bans

Is Freedom.gov a tool for global free speech or a U.S.-backed hub for far-right disinformation?
Report: US to Launch Portal to Bypass EU Content Bans
Above: A photo illustration of a hand typing on a keyboard, taken in Tokyo, Japan, on Jun. 22, 2022. Image credit: d3sign/Getty Images

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Pro-Trump narrative

Freedom.gov will dismantle European censorship by providing people, wherever they are, with direct access to blocked American content via a built-in VPN to bypass government firewalls. Through this initiative, unelected EU bureaucrats will no longer be able to control what their citizens see or say online, restoring Europeans' rights to free speech and free expression.

Anti-Trump narrative

This portal will serve as little more than a glorified distribution hub for far-right disinformation. By creating the tools to bypass Europe's guardrails, the U.S. is aiding the likes of Russia and China to fragment European unity, while empowering the continent's extremists by enabling the spread of their toxic content, undermining public trust, elections and democracy in the process.

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