How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid (1 Viewer)

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    Until recently, Elon Musk seldom posted about the U.S. Agency for International Development on X, where he is wont to share his thoughts on nearly every subject.

    Then on Sunday came a flurry of posts wherein the world’s richest person, the Trump-appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, described USAID, the foreign humanitarian assistance agency, as “a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America,” “evil” and “a criminal organization.”

    “Time for it to die,” Musk posted.

    Musk’s sudden — and consequential —...

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