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The USAGM is a federal agency of the United States government responsible for overseeing and funding U.S. government-supported media organizations that provide news, information, and cultural programming to audiences around the world. It was formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) until 2018 when the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 restructured and rebranded it as the USAGM.
Despite many of these organization’s claims to the contrary, it should be obvious that none of them are unbiased and all of them have an agenda.
“Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.
— V. I. Lenin. (1917). How to Guarantee the Success of the Constituent Assembly
USAGM oversees several media organizations, including: