Brussels’s media machine: EU media funding and the shaping of public discourse
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In an exclusive new report for MCC Brussels — Brussels’s media machine: EU media funding and the shaping of public discourse — I reveal a vast, previously under-scrutinised system through which the European Union annually disburses nearly €80 million to media projects across Europe and beyond.
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Brussels’s media machine: EU media funding and the shaping of public discourse
New report exposes a vast, previously under-scrutinised system through which the European Union annually disburses €80 million a year to media projects across Europe and beyondThomas Fazi
![The image shows a screenshot of a social media post. The post is from Jason D. Salvagni, with the handle [@]salvagni.org, and includes a "Follow" button. The post reads: "Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs."
Below Salvagni's post, there is a reply from Zack Pizzazz, with the handle [@]chadstanton.bsky.social, timestamped 24 minutes ago. The reply states: "Velazquez was named chief in 2012, despite a string of disciplinary actions against him while he was a Hialeah police officer. He was accused during one incident of becoming romantically involved with a woman whom he met at the police station after she was taken in for driving under the influence."
The reply includes a photo of a man in a police uniform, gesturing with his hands, with the Hialeah flag and the American flag in the background. The caption under the photo reads: "Ex-Hialeah police chief busted for stealing almost $600k from city coffers, state says. The acts 'were allegedly committed while he was supposedly serving the people of Hialeah,' Miami-Dade..."
The image is a screenshot of a social media platform, likely Twitter, given the format and layout.
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Below Salvagni's post, there is a reply from Zack Pizzazz, with the handle [@]chadstanton.bsky.social, timestamped 24 minutes ago. The reply states: \"Velazquez was named chief in 2012, despite a string of disciplinary actions against him while he was a Hialeah police officer. He was accused during one incident of becoming romantically involved with a woman whom he met at the police station after she was taken in for driving under the influence.\"
The reply includes a photo of a man in a police uniform, gesturing with his hands, with the Hialeah flag and the American flag in the background. The caption under the photo reads: \"Ex-Hialeah police chief busted for stealing almost $600k from city coffers, state says. The acts 'were allegedly committed while he was supposedly serving the people of Hialeah,' Miami-Dade...\"
The image is a screenshot of a social media platform, likely Twitter, given the format and layout.
Provided by @altbot@fuzzies.wtf, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
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