YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul has pledged to donate $10 million to help end world hunger if Elon Musk donates $6 billion.
On Monday, November 1, Tesla CEO Musk pledged to donate $6 billion of his wealth on the condition that the UN prove exactly where the money is going.
Now, social media personality Paul took to Twitter to announce his promise, vowing to make a sizable donation to the UN on the condition that his tweet received 690,000 retweets and Musk made the first move donating an approximated 2% of his wealth.
"Yo @elonmusk if you donate $6 billion to the UN to end world hunger I’ll also donate $10 million if this gets 690k retweets," Paul wrote on Twitter.
Musk's proposition came about after David Beasley, director of the World Food Programme, proclaimed on CNN last week that a single donation from the US' top 400 billionaires could help prevent a staggering 42 million people from dying of hunger this year.
Beasley said on the program: "The world's in trouble and you're telling me you can't give me 36% of your net worth increase to help the world in trouble, in times like this?
"What if it was your daughter starving to death? What if it was your family starving to death? Wake up, smell the coffee, and help."
On Sunday, October 31, the SpaceX founder, who is reportedly worth $151 billion, took to Twitter to respond to an accompanying CNN article with the headline: "2% of Elon Musk's wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity."
Musk tweeted: "If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."
The entrepreneur continued: "But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent."
Beasley then responded with a tweet of his own, writing: "I can assure you that we have the systems in place for transparency and open source accounting. Your team can review and work with us to be totally confident of such."
When Beasley was questioned about the World Food Programme's existing spending, he clarified: "The $8.4B you refer to covers what we needed to reach 115 million people in 2020 with food assistance."
He went on to say: "We need $6B plus NOW on top of our existing funding requirements due to the perfect storm from the compounding impact of Covid, conflict and climate shocks."
In a separate tweet, Beasley wrote: "6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises."
