Ben Stiller has declared that social media posts making the rounds online, which allege that he used American tax dollars to fund his 2022 trip to Ukraine, are "totally false" and "untrue." The There's Something About Mary actor and the producer of Apple TV+ series Severance reposted social media messages that decried the use of public funds to send celebrities like himself to Ukraine to,

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, who labeled it as a criminal enterprise on his social media platform X.

Ben Stiller recently found himself at the center of a controversy created by social media reports. The reports claimed that Stiller was among the Hollywood celebrities whom USAID (United States Agency for International Development) for their respective trips to Ukraine.