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Ben Stiller denies receiving USAID money for humanitarian trip to Ukraine: 'These are lies from Russian media'

His denial was backed up by a community note on the X social media platform.

USAID has been under intense scrutiny after Elon Muskaccused the organization of funneling taxpayer money to anti-American projects and shut it down in order to audit its budget. Stiller addressed the accusations made on social media that he and other celebrities had been paid by USAID to advocate for Ukraine in the country's war against the Russian invasion. "The original source of the claim in the post is ... a Russian site which in context of the war in Ukraine, should be considered unreliable," the community note on X said.

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