lol no, he fell for a tweet from Eli David who used the misleading headline from CNN which said "$6.6bn could solve world hunger."
The head of the WFP followed up and said it was misleading, but laid out how the $6.6bn would avert famine in 2022. The offer never was "2% of Elon's wealth would solve world hunger" but rather, that amount of money would help 42m people avoid starvation next year, a number atypically high due to a number of circumstances I already outlined.
Of course, it doesn't seem like - based on follow-up tweets - that Elon really cares about that. This whole stupid thing started because CNN ran a misleading headline and some idiot ran with it like it was a fact while @'ing Elon. This is our society in 2021....a "media" company runs a misleading headline, someone takes it as fact instead of taking the 15 or so seconds to actually read the quote, @'s a celebrity billionaire on twitter and now we're two weeks into a "SHOW ME THE RECEIPTS" feud. Meanwhile, those 42m people are still hungry and are apparently going to go hungry without some $6bn in donations.
