'Post will defend free market, personal liberties'

The Washington Post will no longer run views opposed to "personal liberties and free markets" on its opinion pages, owner Jeff Bezos announced this week, the billionaire's latest intervention in the major US paper's editorial operations.

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The move, a major break from the norm at the Post and at most credible news media organisations worldwide, comes as US media face increasing threats to their freedom and accusations of bias from President Donald Trump.

"We are going to be writing every day in support and defence of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," wrote Bezos on social media platform X.

"We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." Bezos said the US capital's premier daily did not have to provide opposing views because "the internet does that job".