{"id":1492979,"date":"2022-05-26T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492979"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:44:50","slug":"fact-check-did-the-australian-prime-minister-announce-the-country-would-give-the-world-economic-forum-2-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-australian-prime-minister-announce-the-country-would-give-the-world-economic-forum-2-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Australian Prime Minister Announce The Country Would Give The World Economic Forum $2.4 Billion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-australian-prime-minister-announce-the-country-would-give-the-world-economic-forum-2-4-billion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/I6joD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet published by newly elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing that Australia will be giving the World Economic Forum (WEF) $2.4 billion over the next 3 years.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tweet was published by a parody account, not Albanese\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/I6joD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> shows a screen grab of a tweet that appears to have been published by newly elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. \u201cAustralia will fund $2.4 billion over the next 3 years to support the World Economic Forum, which is currently hosting the 2022 meeting in Davos,\u201d the alleged tweet reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s only just got in and it\u2019s already downhill all the way,\u201d the post\u2019s caption states. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/30\/fact-check-world-economic-forum-tweet-age-of-consent-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The World Economic Forum Send This Tweet About The Age Of Consent \u2018Infringing On Human Rights\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This tweet was not published by Albanese. A reverse keyword search revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIboMP\/status\/1528790109163868165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> was published by a parody account on May 23. \u201cThis will also be an opportunity to foster a sense of camaraderie, collective purpose and common destiny,\u201d the rest of the parody tweet reads.<\/p>\n<p>Though the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/thon9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account<\/a> has the same profile picture and Twitter handle as Albanese, it only has 2,245 followers and is titled, \u201cAnthony Albanese Australian Labor Parody.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIboMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account<\/a> has since been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>No <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=world%20economic%20forum%20%242.4%20billion%20(from%3Aalbomp)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar tweets<\/a> could be found on Albanese\u2019s verified Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlboMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account.<\/a> There is likewise no record of the tweet on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politwoops.co.uk\/p\/australian-labor-party\/AlboMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politwoops<\/a>, a website that tracks tweets deleted by public officials.<\/p>\n<p>No mention of this large donation to the World Economic Forum (WEF) could be found on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyalbanese.com.au\/media-centre?skip=0&#038;search=world+economic+forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media center<\/a>\u201d section of Albanese\u2019s website, which includes speeches, media releases and more. No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=australia+wef+%242.4+billion&#038;oq=australia+wef+%242.4+billion&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.10419j1j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news outlets<\/a> have reported on the alleged donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet published by newly elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing that Australia will be giving the World Economic Forum (WEF) $2.4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1493032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}