Take the Ukraine crisis as an example

 The seal of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is covered with tape at their headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 7. 2025. /VCG

 Take the Ukraine crisis as an example. With tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalating, USAID funds have been funneled to media organizations in Ukraine, Georgia and Russia. Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske TV, which has received significant funding from the U.S. government, has been widely criticized as heavily biased in favor of Washington's interests in its coverage of the conflicts. Multiple Ukrainian organizations, known as "fact-checkers," have turned out to be an information filter on the Ukrainian internet to deceive local people. Balanced reporting is impossible with funding from the United States.

 USAID has also allocated millions of dollars to "independent" media organizations in countries including Venezuela as part of efforts to overthrow regimes the U.S. does not like. "A significant part of the ongoing hybrid war against Venezuela, carried out by the United States and its allies, has to do with the construction of media narratives based on disinformation, half-truths and propaganda against the elected and legitimate authorities of this country, the Bolivarian Revolution, and against Venezuelan people in general," Orinoco Tribune put it straightforwardly.

 Stephen Kinzer, a former reporter of The New York Times, unveiled in the New York Review of Books website in September 2021 that USAID and the CIA have played a role in supporting insurgent forces in other countries in an attempt to overthrow regimes that the U.S. dislikes. The mission of USAID-included agencies is to overthrow unfriendly foreign governments and install regimes more in line with American interests.

 Simply put, USAID is the implementer of CIA covert operations. Disseminating propaganda to influence peoples' minds is "a major function of the CIA," John Stockwell, former CIA Operations Director admitted earlier. "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities (and) Cuban rapists. We did not know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists," Stockwell said.

 Under the guise of democracy, the U.S. has been taking advantage of the media for infiltration and subversion against other countries – all under the banner of "independent reporting" and "fact-checking." Geopolitical interests have repeatedly turned out to be the primary consideration of Washington, with "independent" media outlets as a means for this end.