The video claims that the United States Agency paid millions of dollars to Ben Stellar, Angelina Jolie and other actors for international development for international development, e! A clip was discovered by the news, though it never appeared on the entertainment channel.
In fact, video first appeared in a post on X on a post that researchers have said Russian spreads unknown information.
Within hours he drew the attention of Elon Musk, which posted it. Similarly, President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.
He promoted a false video when Mr Musk pressed a crusade to shut down USAID, an agency that has distributed most of the government’s foreign aid since 1961. Working with Mr Trump’s government’s performance campaign as Mr. Musk and the head of the headquarters, other administration members have informed the agency’s headquarters, frozen grants and employees that almost all of them leave all of them. Will be given
With the end of the agency, the influence of the right and the accounts has been online online by promoting false claims and conspiracy thinking.
Although some politicians and voters have long been questioned about the value of foreign aid, the agency’s attackers have often distorted the facts and, in a wise or ignorant, accepted as anything. That can help justify the targeting of USAID.
It also includes Mr. Musk himself, who has used this platform in 2022 as a megaphone to try to reduce the federal bureaucracy. On Sunday, Mr Musk called it a “criminal organization” without explaining the basis for such allegations.
“She is exploiting ignorance about the government’s work and lack of monitoring about any work,” said Mike Rothsileld, an unidentified researcher and author of the conspiracy theories, said Mike Rothsilede. “” “It’s all incredibly dangerous, and is getting fine in front of us.”
The attacks flared once again indicated that propaganda associated with its international goals, especially on Mr Musk’s platform, with propaganda from the Kremlin or with its international goals, especially on Mr Musk’s platform. How fast the ideas of the Republic are increasing. According to the Media Forensic Center of Klemson University, the wrong video about celebrities shows the work of an influence campaign that has made dozens of similar fake conspiracies about the Russian war in Ukraine.
“Russian anti -Ukraine propaganda has infiltrated some communities well on the X,” said Darren L. Linol, a researcher there, said Darren L. Through an account network, X was traced to the spread of fake clip from its original.
“How much time does Musk spend on his platform,” said Dr. Linol – “
Neither Mr Musk nor Donald Trump Junior responded to requests for commenting immediately.
X did not immediately respond to a request to comment about the spread of incorrect information about USAID on the platform, though he has added a note to the posts shared about the actors, this Note that this is not a fact.
This week, most of the frenzy online focuses on many USAID grants, which have information about which has been publicly available for years.
A viral claim, for example, started after an account on X, which more than half a million followers suggested that Washington News website, Politico, received more than 8 million from USAID.
It was not true. This website had more than $ 8 million from USAID for its premium environmental and energy publishing subscriptions in two years, and more than $ 8 million from several agencies, including the Department of Energy.
Nevertheless, the claim fired at social media rapidly, as even more inspirational and politicians, with more followers, promoted the idea.
It started a period of other misleading claims about giving money to the BBC and the New York Times. (The agency has given money to an independent charity that shares a name With BBC. The most viral claim about the New York Times was based on the misconduct of official records, including unrelated, such as New York University. In a statementThe Times said the payment he was for subscriptions was for subscriptions. Official data suggests It has also received some advertising income from the government. In a memo to the staff, Politico leaders said that the post was “never taking advantage of government programs or subsidies.”)
The facts failed to reach an important audience online, but misinformation was raised by prominent podcasters, politicians and Trump’s allies within hours.
The accounts dedicated to sharing conspiracy theories say that these claims are somehow proof that the Democrats used USAID to fund the “Fake Empire”.
By the afternoon of Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister and authoritarian leader, Victor and Bin echoed the claims in the United States, wrote on X that the payments to Politico somehow “funded the left -wing media mainly in Hungary. Provided “-a viral post that received more. More than 26 million opinions.
Soon the idea spread to the Oval Office, where Mr Trump used his truth social account to criticize government news subscriptions – which also happened during his first presidency – “Good stories about Democrats As “payment” for making.
“This can be the biggest scandal of them all, probably the biggest of history!” He wrote Thursday morning in the all -hats when other consumers demanded a criminal investigation.
The White House press secretary, Crown Levyt, announced that the administration would cancel all political subscriptions. On Thursday, the Agriculture Department said it had canceled its political subscriptions.
For Russia and China, more US -conservative turmoil than USAID has been shocked.
In the echo of Mr Orban’s complaint, the two countries have blamed the agency for supporting destructive programs in their countries.
Chen Vihwa, a prominent chief and columnist of the Bureau of State News Organization China Daily, cited the news about the agency’s financing for previous claims. He advised that the BBC reporters in China were “all purchased” through the Central Intelligence Agency and the British intelligence service, MI6.
“If you have the questions that BBC reporters in China have been defaming China in all these years and talking to BS, you can now get answers.”
Russian President Vladimir Wei Putin banned the US Aid grant in 2012 and expelled the United Nations from the country, accusing them of financing opponents of their rule. (Republican and Democratic administration officials have argued that programs have easily promoted civil society in Russia.)
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Maria Zakhrova, also mocked a series of criticism in the United States, claiming that the agency’s main purpose is to refer to the protests in Egypt in 2011. It was, in 2014, Ukraine and Ukraine last year Georgia.
False video that went viral this week claims that a celebrity journey for USAID is according to the repeated story of Russia overseas that the United States supports Ukraine with the help of these resources. There is a US voter will spend at home.
According to the Climson Media Forensics Center, this video is seen after the Russian nest doll, the researchers see the work of an influence known as Operation Overload or MetroShka. The work is led by a private company that has links to the Kremlin.
The footage showed photos or clips of several famous actors’ meetings with Ukrainian leader, Wolodmeer Zillski, while in a British accent, a narrator claimed that the actors received a big payment from USAID for the hearing. –
Ravi says Ms Julie received $ 20 million. Orlando Bloom, Million 8 million; And Sean Pan, million 5 million; And so the Ravi claims that “this was done to increase the popularity of Zilnski in foreign audiences, especially in the United States.” “The inclusion of celebrities made it easier to connect funding programs for Ukraine during the dispute.”
After the video was published on the X account, articles about its claims were published in at least two Russian news organizations, Sangrad and Prada. The video was picked up by several accounts that have previously shared an unknown Russian information, but soon the Americans who move forward increased to please the Trump administration. Until Thursday, the truth of the Teltok and Mr Trump’s truth social platform users shared the video when commentators expressed their anger and demanded the termination of USAID.
There is no evidence of payments in any agency program. E -spokesperson! The news also said in a statement that “the video is not authentic and e -news is not born of news.”
Actor Ben Steller said Million was paid 4 million for a visit to Ukraine, taking on social media to try to deny the claim. He wrote on the X, “These are a lie coming from the Russian media.” There was no fund from USAID and certainly no payment. “
Mr Musk’s more conspiracy supporters continue to please the billionaire.
They included a Food Service worker and former Army National Guard soldier who was Charged In 2022, conspiracy theory about US biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. Attacking USAID, he wrote in posts on X and Telegram this week, Mr Musk exposed “Orlen Dastopia” by giving details of the agency’s support for the media.
“We live on a lie,” he said.
