False video claims celebrities had been ‘paid’ by USAID to go to Ukraine

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A video claiming that USAID, the US authorities’s most important abroad help company, has paid Hollywood celebrities tens of millions of {dollars} to go to Ukraine has gone viral on social media and has been amplified by high-profile accounts like Elon Musk.

However, the clip shouldn’t be actual and has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation that the BBC has beforehand investigated.

BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson explains why.

Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Motion graphics by Mark Edwards. Additional reporting by Shayan Sardarizadeh.

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