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US funding for global internet freedom ‘effectively gutted’

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Date Published: Feb 16, 2026

Abstract: Meanwhile, the Trump administration this January withdrew from the Freedom Online Coalition, a global alliance set up by the US to defend digital rights.

The cuts risk curtailing technologies that helped Iranians to coordinate during recent anti-government protests, and that allowed videos and images of massacres to reach the outside world. They could have a major impact in other nations too; the efforts of groups in Myanmar to get past the junta’s “digital iron curtain”, and the ability of users in China to avoid surveillance.

“The programme was effectively gutted,” said a former US official. “They didn’t issue any grants this year.”

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