Truth now appears to be dead as lies misleading statements and or weaponized misunderstandings go viral left and right, including today's stories around AOC, Bernie Sanders, Politico, and USAID.

And this is Donald Trump has now doubled down on taking over Gaza with the seeing big updates out of Israel about what comes next.

We're talking about that and much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news how it's being covered and how people are reacting to it, starting with this.

Tell me if you've heard this one.

USAID has been propping up sites like Politico, giving them $8 million in taxpayer funds in just one fiscal year, meaning the Politico is state-funded media stealing from you, the taxpayer. Except that isn't really accurate.

And the truth, it turns out is much less sinister.

So let's walk through it.

This whole debacle had started when Politico was late with the payroll this week.

And that, thanks to what they said, was a technical error that was resolved by the end of the

day, so everyone got paid.

But then what we saw is that with that, you had posts including screenshots from a government website tracking federal spending showing that Politico received $8 million from the government in the 2024 fiscal year.

With former Fox News producer Kyle Becker sharing these screenshots and saying,

Fun fact, Politico received USAID funds.

Seemingly, claiming that the $8 million came from USAID alone.

And then, in a follow-up post, he connected Politico's late payroll with the recent

crackdowns on USAID's spending.

Right, pointing to the report and then adding, the technical error was reportedly resolved.

The error of sending U.S. taxpayer money to a biased partisan establishment publication,

however, is being fixed.

And about half an hour later, another pose went viral with this one coming from conservative

commentator Benny Johnson, who claimed Politico was being massively funded by USAID.

This then even saying the White House press secretary addressing the situation.

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