USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 ‘media’ NGOs including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine, WikiLeaks says.
Previously, Elon Musk has hit out at the previous US administration over wasting HEFTY sums on mass media. Which news outlets are on the list and how much was spent on them? Have a look:
🔺The Associated Press
▪️2024: around $1.2 million
▪️2023: more than $4 million
▪️2022: more than $3 million
▪️2021: about $3 million
🔺The New York Times
▪️2024: $4.1 million
▪️2023: about $2 million
▪️2022: about $2 million
▪️2021: nearly $3 million
🔺Politico
▪️2021: about $700,000
▪️2022: about $700,000
▪️2023: almost $600,000
▪️2024: about $8.1 million
🔺The BBC
▪️2024: more than $3 million
▪️2023: more than $3 million
▪️2022: about $1.5 million
▪️2021: about $1 million