TIL Elon Musk made nearly $6 billion dollars in donations after the UN challenged him to use “2% of his wealth to end world hunger”

by squaremild

It’s weird — I remember a lot about the UN World Food Program challenge and his response: “Show me a plan of action for the $6 billion and I will sell the Tesla stock necessary today.”

Well the UN didn’t come through but Elon did it anyway.

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It’s unclear, however, where Musk will be donating that $5.74 billion. Musk sold 5,044,000 Tesla shares worth that amount and gave the money to charity between Nov. 19 and Nov. 29, according to an SEC filing. The recipient is anonymous.

I’m kind of surprised that none of these so-called reporters tried to descry what charity experienced a $5,700,000,000 windfall in 2021. Seems like it would have been easy to figure out with a little of that ole “shoe-leather journalism”

fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger/

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