Responding to comments from a peculiar U.S. President's envoy on peculiar Missions Richard Grenell, Elon Musk He wrote on X: “Yes, close them. Europe is now free (not counting the choking bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore. They are only extremist left-wing lunatics talking to themselves, while at the same time paying $1 billion a year from American taxpayers' money."
— Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America are media paid by American taxpayers. These are state media. These media are filled with utmost left-wing activists," said Grenell on 9 February. “I worked with these journalists for decades. It's a relic of the past. We do not request media paid by the government," he said.
Radio Free Europe (Radio Free Europe) broadcasts in 27 languages in 23 countries. It is an American government station, created in 1949 from the merger of the Free Europe Council and the Freedom Council, to operate in places where the free movement of information is limited, mainly in Central and east Europe, in Asian countries and the mediate East. The mission of the RWE is to advance democratic values.
