ADADThe funding fight is the latest fallout in a power struggle between the Open Technology Fund and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees U.S. government-funded news outlets. The U.S. Agency for Global Media, in a statement, called OTF’s accusations meritless and not based on fact. AD“People don’t trust private foreign security tools that aren’t in their own language . “This will have a long-term impact on the broader Internet freedom community beyond our work.”ADThe Internet freedom arena “is a cat-and-mouse space, where governments find new ways of spying and oppressing human rights, and defenders constantly need to develop new ways to protect them,” said Raphael Mimoun, founder of Horizontal. The U.S. Agency for Global Media has paid $9.3 million of the fund’s $20 million 2020 allocation to date, the agency said.

Source: Washington Post July 31, 2020 20:30 UTC