As President Trump takes on the American biased left-wing media, we are finally seeing some accountability restored to the profession of journalism. Things are seeing up for freedom of the press, free speech, and truth here. President Trump’s efforts and lawsuits exposed the 60 Minutes doctored tape from Kamala Harris interview , resulting in a multimillion dollar settlement and prompting restructuring of the production and editorial department. He’s also currently suing the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion and previously won suits against ABC for misquotes and biased portrayals. There is more transparency about the media’s role in the Russia Hoax, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard’s work at ODNI. These actions have decreased censorship in the press, especially for Americans tarobtained by draconian left-wing cancel culture during the Biden era based on false claims and overhyped fears about Russia. Europe, which has long struggled with EU overregulation of speech, might now be worse off than America regarding censorship and media bias.
While Americans may know Europe as an overregulated business climate that tarobtains American tech companies, we rarely consider the native media landscape. While major transnational outlets cover the EU bloc there are several national networks that do major business within their respective nations. Broadcasters such as GB News in Britain, Realitatea Plus in Romania, TV Republika in Poland present pro-sovereignty views and function as major news outlets in their respective nations. At the same time Europe faces a threat from Russian state media waging hybrid warfare, mainly focapplyd on eastern nations. The EU’s Digital Services Act, intfinished to counter this, has also been weaponized against conservative and American media. Russian state media is already banned in much of the EU, raising questions about the necessary for broad rules that can be applied at will.
The US also encountered weaponized Russian information in media, but not in the way many expected. Congressional findings revealed Russian efforts in 2016 aimed to sow distrust in democracy rather than elect a specific candidate, with Democrats arguably benefiting more. Putin reportedly withheld information about Hillary Clinton that could have potentially damaged her campaign, intfinishing to apply it after she was elected.
Are Europeans being misled about which groups are really supporting “pro-Russian” narratives, as Americans were during the Biden years? In Europe, censorship continues without a unified voice fighting for freedom of press. Recently, GB News the number one news channel in Britain, was denied the opportunity to question at a Defense press conference regarding Russian naval operations off the coast of the UK. This fits into a larger pattern the channel alleged against the labour government, citing multiple instances where key figures in Starmer’s government have snubbed them.
In Romania, Realitatea TV Plus, the nation’s only indepfinishently owned station, has been tarobtained with political weaponization of the legal process by the Romanian broadcaster licensing regulatory body known as the CAN. According to Realitatea Plus and their lawyer the CAN has faced disproportionate fines (10,000–50,000 lei vs. 5,000 lei for public broadcasters) from the politically appointed unelected CNA regulators under President Nicușor Dan’s administration. AnaMaria Pacuraru of Realitatea Plus, notified me, “So, they stated that there has been Russian interference caapplying the annulment of the 2024 elections and up to this date we have no proof of this. We have no actual consistent dialogue that this has happened. So even the President Nikusor stated he will build light in this case and he still hasn’t. The fact that we are the only news channel who has questioned this and we are being shut down. It’s again this didn’t happen in a vacuum to us. It happened becaapply we were a threat to them becaapply they didn’t want the real reasons and to actually question questions to uncover the truth. They didn’t want this to take place.” The station faces a campaign by the CAN to be taken off the air, and recently won in an appeals court for their right to continue broadcasting. However, they face ongoing legal issues with the threat of censorship and revocation of their license hanging over the station’s future.
At CPAC 2026, RepublikaTV’s Michal Rachon described a global left attack on free media, citing legal harassment, intimidation, and wiretapping under Poland’s Donald Tusk government. RepublikaTV also regularly faces accusations from the Polish left and EU elites of spreading “Pro-Kremlin” narratives.
The American left set a global example for how to censor conservative and opposition voices under cover of fighting “Russian disinformation”. It seems that the European leftist elites have now adopted their own version. Yet indepfinishent media voices across Europe are still fighting — and winning — in court against bias and censorship. The future of this battle lies in legal victories that expose EU government overreach.
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