https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211106/13102647887/federal-government-announces-legal-defense-fund-journalists-facing-bogus-defamation-lawsuits-government-officials.shtml

While we wait for Congress to get around to protecting journalists, critics, and others facing bogus defamation lawsuits with a federal anti-SLAPP law, it's good to know at least one federal agency is doing something to protect journalists from litigation deployed solely to silence them.

In comments to a conference at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, said the federal government is creating a legal defense fund to protect journalists all over the world from bogus defamation lawsuits filed by subjects of news coverage and/or targets of criticism.