#Azerbaijan background:
Trump’s #USAID cuts eliminated $268 million in global independent media funding, removing alternatives to state propaganda in authoritarian countries like Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan essentilay eliminated independent journalism.
Reporters Without Borders ranks Azerbaijan 167th of 180 countries for press freedom, calling it the “greatest” repression since 1991 independence. Pro-government outlets systematically doxx detained journalists using private communications, surveillance footage, and personal documents - likely obtained through torture, phone seizures, or Pegasus spyware targeting.
Meydan TV, with nearly 1 million Instagram followers, now operates with zero in-country staff for the first time in its 12-year history after all local journalists were arrested.
The government controls virtually all media through state ownership and opaque private holdings like Global Media Group, whose chair received presidential honors for “media development services.”
https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/the-death-of-journalism-in-azerbaijan
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