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<blockquote data-quote="AnnaConda" data-source="post: 1087068" data-attributes="member: 3142">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646[/URL]Before Musk led the charge to terminate USAID, his companies worked with and took funding from it. Tesla holds a stake in a company called Zola, which is funded in part by USAID to bring renewable energy to agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. And Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240114061800/https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/apr-05-2022-usaid-safeguards-internet-access-ukraine-through-public-private-partnership-spacex" target="_blank">partnered with</a> USAID to bring its Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine in 2022 after Russia’s invasion destroyed telecommunications infrastructure. On Wednesday, Musk shared <a href="https://x.com/DarrenLinvill/status/1887323114846962059" target="_blank">a faked video</a> claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill, a co-director of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda.<img src="https://pomf2.lain.la/f/htcood8.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="AnnaConda, post: 1087068, member: 3142"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/elon-musk-boosted-false-usaid-conspiracy-theories-global-aid-rcna190646[/URL] Before Musk led the charge to terminate USAID, his companies worked with and took funding from it. Tesla holds a stake in a company called Zola, which is funded in part by USAID to bring renewable energy to agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. And Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX, [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20240114061800/https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/apr-05-2022-usaid-safeguards-internet-access-ukraine-through-public-private-partnership-spacex']partnered with[/URL] USAID to bring its Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine in 2022 after Russia’s invasion destroyed telecommunications infrastructure. On Wednesday, Musk shared [URL='https://x.com/DarrenLinvill/status/1887323114846962059']a faked video[/URL] claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill, a co-director of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda. [IMG]https://pomf2.lain.la/f/htcood8.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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