For 70 years, VOA Ukrainian exposed corruption, countered Russian misinformation, and explained U.S. policy. Trusted by 99% of viewers, reaching 4M weekly—until it fell silent in March 2025. #SaveVOA
ဗွီအိုအေ ဝန်ထမ်းတွေဘက်က ဒီကနေ့ ထရမ့်အစိုးရရဲ့ USAGM ကိုနောက်ထပ်အမှုနဲ့ တရားထပ်စွဲလိုက်ပြီ။ လွှတ်တော်ပြဌာန်းချက်နဲ့အညီ ယုံကြည်စိတ်ချရတဲ့ သတင်းဌာန အဖြစ် ရပ်တည်ချက်ကို ကာကွယ်ဖို့ ဗွီအိုအေ သတင်းသမားတွေက ထရမ့်အစိုးရကို ထပ်ပြီး တရားစွဲလိုက်တာဖြစ်တယ်။ #SaveVOA #IngyinNaing @savevoa.bsky.social
VOA Burmese advances U.S. interests—countering China/Russia and delivering trusted news where press is silenced. This is strategic. #SaveVOA #VOABurmese
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We’re ready to return—but committed to journalism, not propaganda. That’s why we filed suit to defend VOA’s editorial independence. Patsy Widakuswara spoke to BBC Newshour. #SaveVOA
Today (3/23) a group of VOA journalists Barry Newhouse, Ayesha Tanzeem, Dong Hyuk Lee and Ksenia Turkova filed a new lawsuit against the administration to protect VOA’s editorial independence and restore our credibility. Read their statement here. #SaveVOA
On March 23, the day we were supposed to return to work, a group of VOA journalists sued USAGM, again. Here's why. #SaveVOA
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ဗွီအိုအေ နောက်ဆုံးအခြေအနေ — ဗွီအိုအေ ဝန်ထမ်း တထောင်ကျော်ကို ပြန်လည်ခေါ်ယူပြီး အသံလွှင့်လုပ်ငန်းတွေပြန်လည်ပတ်ဖို့ ချမှတ်ထားတဲ့ တရားရုံးအမိန့်ကို ရပ်ဆိုင်းထားဖို့ ထရမ့်အစိုးရရဲ့ တောင်းဆိုချက်ကို တရားသူကြီး လန်းဘတ်က ပယ်ချလိုက်တယ်။ #SaveVOA #IngyinNaing
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Turkey sits at the crossroads of the Iran conflict, balancing security, refugees, and energy risks. VOA Turkish once helped audiences understand moments like this.
Today, it is silent. #SaveVOA
Ahead of Judge Lamberth’s ruling to reinstate VOA journalists, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of the SaveVOA campaign. We’re grateful for court victories and congressional support, and we’ll keep fighting for VOA to broadcast journalism, not propaganda! #SaveVOA
Ahead of Judge Lamberth’s ruling to reinstate VOA journalists, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of the SaveVOA campaign. We’re grateful for court victories and congressional support, and we’ll keep fighting for VOA to broadcast journalism, not propaganda! #SaveVOA
ဗွီအိုအေ ဝန်ထမ်း ၁,၀၄၂ ယောက်ကို မတ်လ ၂၃ ရက်နေ့မတိုင်မီ ပြန်လည်ခေါ်ယူပြီး အသံလွှင့် ထုတ်လွှင့်မှုအားလုံးကို ပြန်စတင်ဖို့ ဖက်ဒရယ်တရားသူကြီး Lamberth က မတ်လ (၁၇) ရက်မှာ အမိန့်ချလိုက်ပါတယ်။ #savevoa #SaveVOA #IngyinNaing
VOA News operations ordered to be restored... by next Monday:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...
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@cnn.com This is such a beautiful rebuttal to your unnecessary and heartless removal!
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Today (3/17), Judge Lamberth vacated Kari Lake’s actions to cut USAGM to the “statutory minimum.” Employees must return by March 23.
Statement from plaintiffs in Widakuswara v. Lake.
#SaveVOA
Most of VOA’s 49 language services are still silenced due to Kari Lake’s actions to dismantle us. Here’s a look at one of them—VOA Indonesian. #SaveVOA #VOAIndonesian
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We welcome clarity on leadership at USAGM. Our focus remains the same: restoring Voice of America’s global mission as required by law. #SaveVOA
Kari Lake’s actions in gutting VOA is blocking Iranians from the truth and hampering U.S. efforts in Iran, argue lawmakers during a House of Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, “Advancing National Security Through Public Diplomacy,” March 5, 2026. #SaveVOA
“Americans don’t always realize that a government-funded outlet can still have professional journalists who don’t produce propaganda,” says former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty.
#SaveVOA
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Rep. Gregory Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, emphasized that U.S. public diplomacy tools like VOA must remain independent journalism—not propaganda—during a March 5, 2026, hearing on “Advancing National Security Through Public Diplomacy.”
#SaveVOA
“A federal court ruled that Kari Lake was never lawfully authorized to serve as acting CEO of USAGM, making actions taken in that role, including the August 2025 RIF affecting 500+ employees, void.” #SaveVOA
“The damage done to USAGM and VOA cannot be ignored.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks speaks on the impact of actions taken against the United States Agency for Global Media and Voice of America. #SaveVOA
I am THRILLED that Voice of America won in court and am looking forward to their full restoration. #saveVOA #freedomofthepress #firstamendment #ruleoflaw #media #medialiteracy
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Statement from named plaintiffs of Widakuswara v. Lake, Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper following Judge Lamberth's March 3 ruling Kari Lake's actions as illegal. #SaveVOA
VOA now broadcasts in only 6 of 49 languages. Indonesian remains silent—even though it reaches 65M weekly listeners in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. Former U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel highlights VOA’s impact. #SaveVOA