A video alleging that celebrities including Stiller, Sean Penn, and Angelina Jolie received funding from an agency that Musk wants to put “into the woodchipper” is nothing but “lies coming from Russian media,

Ben Stiller has denied social media reports that his humanitarian trip to Ukraine was funded by USAID, dismissing the claims as Russian “lies.” Over the weekend, the US Agency for International Development was targeted for dissolution by Elon Musk,

"These are lies" wrote Ben Stiller about a video posted on X and amplified by Musk alleging USAID spent $4M to send the actor on a highly-publicized visit to Ukraine

Ben Stiller debunks false claims that USAID funded celebrity trips to Ukraine. The false claims are believed to have come from the Russian media, but Elon Musk reshared them and pushed their circulation on X.