Did USAID spend millions to make Zelenskyy Time 'Person of the Year'?
USAID has become a significant target for false claims since Trump reentered the White House, and scrutiny of the US's support of Ukraine has intensified.
A false video is being shared widely on social media alleging that the US paid $4 million (€3.8 million) to Time Magazine to name Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its "Person of the Year" in 2022.
The video is often posted with captions saying that the previous US government under President Joe Biden used taxpayer money to "brainwash" citizens and "bribe the media."
Others say that this means you can't trust Western media because you can supposedly buy Time's front cover "for the right price."
The video itself says that since starting its work, President Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, has discovered "huge amounts of money wasted by the government."
In addition to the claims about Zelenskyy, the video mentions that USAID — the US' international aid agency — gave more than $8 million to Politico, funded thousands of journalists, and siphoned off money to the Democratic Party.
The video uses the New York Post's logo to suggest that the claims come from there, but a search of the American news outlet's website shows that no such news story exists.
EuroVerify reached out to New York Post but hasn't received a response as of the time of this fact check.
We can also check the handily-named website USAspending.gov, which doesn't contain any details of payments to Time Magazine or Salesforce — the company founded by Time owner Marc Benioff.
Time named Zelenskyy and the Spirit of Ukraine as its Person of the Year in 2022, the year that Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It wrote at length about its rationale for doing so at the time.
USAID has become a significant target for false claims since Trump reentered the White House, and scrutiny of the US's support of Ukraine has intensified.
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