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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T01:10:03.000Z",
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    "newly established freedom.gov website",
    "national security strategy",
    "Failed asylum seeker tells GB News real reason he was banned from 'self-deporting' for SECOND time",
    "Youths face charges for plot to turn picturesque US beach town into crime-fuelled 'free-for-all'",
    "Shock as all-time Nascar great dies aged 41 just hours after pulling out of race",
    "\"nothing was off the table\"",
    "one of the party's council leaders called grooming gang victims \"white trash\"",
    "sanction both the Prime Minister and the UK itself",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nThe Trump administration's new \"free speech portal\" is being flooded by Britons complaining about censorship, a senior US official has said.\n\nSarah Rogers, the State Department's under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, said the newly established freedom.gov website - designed to bypass to bans on \"hate speech\" in places abroad - has been inundated with complaints from British users.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe website had been established this year as a “censorship circumvention project” by the Trump administration - which has long voiced its concerns over free speech in Britain and Europe.\n\nAt an event at the Washington-based Hudson Institute, Ms Rogers revealed that the \"clear majority of visitors to that landing page are Brits\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nWith the website still under development, that page is currently the only feature available.\n\nIt features a picture of US revolutionary Paul Revere, alongside the text: “Freedom is coming. Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”\n\nThe senior Trump administration official said: “It’s no coincidence. America, our roots are in Britain, the roots of our common law are in Britain.\n\n\"We have more in common with these people than divides us. Just because Government and key sectors of civil society are hostile to freedom of speech doesn’t mean the people are.”\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nIn December, the US Government's national security strategy outlined plans to back right-wing movements across Europe, and accused the EU of suppressing free speech and silencing voices critical of migration.\n\nIt read: “American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history.\n\n\"America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.”\n\nThe 33-page document also looked at possible funding think tanks and other like-minded groups which \"advance American priorities\" across Europe.\n\n### US NEWS - READ THE LATEST:\n\n\n\n\n  * Failed asylum seeker tells GB News real reason he was banned from 'self-deporting' for SECOND time\n  * Youths face charges for plot to turn picturesque US beach town into crime-fuelled 'free-for-all'\n  * Shock as all-time Nascar great dies aged 41 just hours after pulling out of race\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMs Rogers has denied accusations of the US directly funding right-wing parties in Europe - such as Reform UK and Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) - adding she believes it would be \"a mistake to see it as America’s goal to put any particular party in power in Europe\".\n\nShe told the event: “I think it is America’s role to advance receptivity among European publics to certain ideas: ideas like ‘mass migration disrupts societies’; ideas like ‘Europe should take a stronger hand in its own defence’; ideas like ‘the government should focus on policing the streets, not the tweets’.\n\n\"It’s not just populist far-right parties - so-called ‘far-right parties’, I think these parties actually have views that are pretty mainstream in some instances - that have come around to those concerns.”\n\nNews of the popularity of America's \"free speech portal\" among Britons comes as as police chiefs in the UK called for internet restrictions for more than 12 million Britons.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) have urged authorities to block children from using social media sites, AI and gaming apps which fail to ban \"high-risk\" features.\n\nThe police bosses argued the UK's more than 12 million under-16s should not have access to sites which do not block \"harmful content\" from being showed, and platforms which enable children from being approached through private messaging.\n\nIn February, Ms Rogers told GB News that \"nothing was off the table\" to open up \"authoritarian, closed societies\" which censor the internet, amid a row between Labour and Elon Musk's X platform.\n\nShe added: \"Given the pro-censorship inclinations of the British state in recent memory, I can't say that we'll be shocked\" if the Government banned it.\n\nThe senior Trump administration official had previously mocked Labour's promise to \"ensure women and girls are safe online\" by pointing out how \"in the real world\" one of the party's council leaders called grooming gang victims \"white trash\".\n\nMeanwhile, US lawmaker Anna Paulina Luna has in the past threatened to sanction both the Prime Minister and the UK itself if Labour banned X.\n\nIt would also place Britain in the same tier as countries like China, Iran and Russia.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Britons flood to US Government's 'free speech portal' in bid to flee 'censorship' at home"
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