No, USAID didn’t spend millions to make Zelenskyy Time’s Person of the Year, it’s more fake news

No, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) didn’t spend millions to make Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Time’s “Person of the Year” in 2022, it’s yet more misinformation.

A video shared on social media on 26 February, which since appears to have been deleted but is still available as an archived version, alleged that USAID, under president Joe Biden, paid $4 million of taxpayer money to name Zelenskyy Time’s Person of the Year. 

The video was retweeted 25,000 times and was viewed by nearly three million people before being removed.

It was uploaded by a user called Johnny Midnight, who captioned it: “USAID paid Time magazine 4 million dollars to name Zelensky ‘Person of the Year’ Is there any media that wasn’t on USAID

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