OOPS! CNN Corrects Headline Saying 2% of Elon Musk’s Wealth ‘Could Solve World Hunger’

NewsBusters ^ | 11/1/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

CNN tried to sell a false headline alleging that a fraction of the world’s richest man’s wealth could solve world hunger.

CNN’s story was headlined, “2% of [Tesla co-founder and CEO] Elon Musk's wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization.” The lede paragraph asserted that “A small group of ultra-wealthy individuals could help solve world hunger with just a fraction of their net worth, says the director of the United Nations' World Food Programme [David Beasley.]” But the story’s lede offers a completely different context than what the headline suggested. Saying the rich could “help” solve world hunger with a fraction of their wealth is vastly different from saying two percent of one man’s wealth — even if he is the most wealthy in the world — “could solve world hunger” as the headline stated. CNN later issued a correction at the bottom of the story correcting the spin.

Twitter users ripped the initial headline apart.

[Bob434]

The hunger in places like Africa and Orth Korea znd other places will never be solved because of corrupt gov and also because of dangerous terrorist groups making sure the donated food doesn’t get to where it’s going.

All, woild have to change if world hunger were to stop.

Remember the ‘Farm aid” concerts? I wonder if that even made a dent in world hunger, or if the money was scoffed up by the governments

[al baby]

yet there are more fat people as ever

[SunkenCiv]

Take the red pill.

[daniel1212]

List of countries by obesity rate. US at #12. But an obesity tax would never be considered, while the often claimed "food insecurity" and Americans going hungry is contrived.

[GOPJ]

CNN’s fools/tools can’t do math? Who woulda thunk it? /s