| Title: | Musk amplifies fake report claiming USAID paid celebrities to support Zelensky |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36XA8LR |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | February 6, 2025 |
| Description: | Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr and other prominent conservatives are sharing a video that claims to show E! News reporting that the US’s humanitarian agency paid millions of dollars to celebrities including Angelina Jolie and Ben Stiller to visit Ukraine and help boost President Volodymyr Zelensky’s popularity amid the country’s war with Russia. But the clip is not an authentic report, a spokesperson for the entertainment news channel told AFP, and Stiller has publicly rejected the allegations as false. |
