{"id":22697,"date":"2025-02-08T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/false-video-claims-celebrities-were-paid-by-usaid-to-visit-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T03:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T03:08:11","slug":"false-video-claims-celebrities-were-paid-by-usaid-to-visit-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/false-video-claims-celebrities-were-paid-by-usaid-to-visit-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"False video claims celebrities were &#8216;paid&#8217; by USAID to visit Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A video claiming that USAID, the US government&#8217;s main overseas aid agency, has paid Hollywood celebrities millions of dollars to visit Ukraine has gone viral on social media and has been amplified by high-profile accounts like Elon Musk.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">However, the clip is not real and has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation that the BBC has previously investigated.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Olga Robinson explains why. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"produced-by-aisha-sembhi.-motion-graphics-by-mark-edwards.-additional-reporting-by-shayan-sardarizadeh.\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Motion graphics by Mark Edwards. Additional reporting by Shayan Sardarizadeh.<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0m12wl0jwpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video claiming that USAID, the US government&#8217;s main overseas aid agency, has paid Hollywood celebrities millions of dollars to visit Ukraine has gone viral on social media and has been amplified by high-profile accounts like Elon Musk. However, the clip is not real and has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation that the BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1099,1121,1318,2243,1522,8463,1264,2198],"class_list":["post-22697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-celebrities","tag-claims","tag-false","tag-paid","tag-ukraine","tag-usaid","tag-video","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22699,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions\/22699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}