Kyiv, Feb 6 (EFE).- The Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation has denounced a fake video shared by Elon Musk on X saying that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) spent taxpayer money to boost the popularity of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the US with celebrity trips to Ukraine.<\/p>
The head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, wrote on Telegram that Musk spread a fake video on the social network he owns saying that the American agency paid for celebrity trips to Ukraine to boost Zelenskyy’s popularity.<\/p>
According to Kovalenko, the stars who allegedly benefited from these trips have denied receiving money from the American cooperation agency.<\/p>
The new administration of President Donald Trump has halted all USAID funding and may close the agency, seeing it as a source of unnecessary spending for ideological purposes. <\/p>
Ukraine is one of the beneficiaries of the agency’s aid, which has funded projects in the country to generate electricity, support agriculture and hospitals, and develop NGOs and media.<\/p>
Kovalenko said that the video posted by Musk was created by Russia, while warning that it was never published on the media site it referred to. <\/p>
He insisted that the Russians are “using X to spread propaganda” in a “massive way.”<\/p>
\u201cElon, we will soon show how they do it in the Middle East,\u201d he added while announcing that he would publish a detailed analysis of Russian information warfare in that area.<\/p>
Kovalenko called for \u201cmore responsibility\u201d for the content published and shared on X. EFE <\/p>
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