🚨 Big Development Regarding FARA 🚨
A Senate bill could dramatically reshape how foreign government-backed media operate in America and force the DOJ to answer for outlets that haven't registered as foreign agents.
Introduced by Sen. Rick Scott on October 15 (and virtually unreported thus far), S. 5682 would cover media owned, controlled, or financed by foreign governments, even indirectly or in part.
To avoid FARA registration, outlets would have to show that their home country's laws permit criticism of the government funding them AND prove their editorial independence to the U.S. Attorney General.
Even more significantly, the DOJ would have to give Congress an annual list of foreign government-backed media outlets operating in the U.S., disclose which are registered, and explain why the others aren't.
This should be a no-brainer. And if any lawmaker, commentator, or anyone else objects to this level of transparency, they should have to explain exactly why. Whose interests are they protecting?