U.N. hunger agency chief follows up tweet exchange with Elon Musk with plea to billionaires
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United Nations — Billionaires can help save millions of girls and boys from starving, U.N.'s food and hunger agency chief David Beasley told CBS News Radio from Rome. His comments come after a back-and-forth with billionaire Elon Musk, who said he'd give up some of his wealth, if the U.N. agency could prove publicly exactly where the money is going.
"We need the help of billionaires who have made so much money during COVID – unprecedented wealth – this is a one-time ask. Please help us. Please help us save little girls and little boys," Beasely said Friday.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX replied to a U.N. tweet on Wednesday asking the World Food Programme to show how $6 billion would solve world hunger and saying he would sell Tesla stock, adding that the U.N.'s proof would have to be open source, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.
