According to the daily mail on the 24th, the contradiction between billionaire Elon Musk and Bill Gates has escalated again recently. The reason is that an American media said that Bill Gates spent a lot of money to fund some organizations, which called for preventing musk from acquiring American social media giant twitter**
On Tuesday, musk tweeted, "sigh." Later, he wrote again, "what a disgusting practice". This is a response to an article by Breitbart, a us far right news website. According to the article, the Bill Gates charitable foundation has donated "hundreds of millions of dollars" to many non-governmental organizations, which are promoting a boycott. If Twitter is bought by musk, they will lobby advertisers to boycott the twitter platform.
The article said that 26 organizations agreed to participate in the action and signed an open letter. The Gates Foundation donated to 11 of the 26 organizations and distributed relevant funds through the new venture fund and tides foundation, which are described as "black money" organizations. "Black money" organizations refer to money laundering organizations that provide funds for illegal activities or secret political activities.
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Previously, musk and gates, the two billionaires, had many disputes. According to the New York Post, Bill Gates said earlier this month that it was unclear whether Musk's $44 billion acquisition of twitter would bring positive changes to the social platform. Gates believes that this move may make the problem of widespread false information on twitter worse.
At the CEO Council forum summit held by the Wall Street Journal, Gates said: "he (MuSK) may actually make things worse. This is not what he was good at before - he was in Tesla And SpaceX are very exciting... I have a little doubt whether it will happen this time. However, we should keep an open mind and never underestimate Elon. What is his goal? When he talks about openness, what does he think of statements like 'vaccines kill' or 'Bill Gates is monitoring people'? Does he think such statements should be spread? "
According to CNBC, musk admitted in a tweet in April that he had asked Bill Gates whether he had short Tesla shares. Musk said on Twitter: "I heard from many Ted people that Gates still holds a short position of $500 million Tesla. That's why I asked him, so it's not a top secret."
Later, musk mocked gates on Twitter and put the Microsoft The picture of the co-founder with a big belly was put together with the expression pack symbol of "pregnant man", and said "you need to lose weight quickly".
When asked by the new york post about the dispute, musk said he had been watered down by the New York Post. "It won't bother him," he told the moderator of the CEO Council forum.