GENEVA — Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday (March 23) in a tweet that countries should not 'cede authority' to the World Health Organisation, and the UN health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments. 'Countries should not cede authority to WHO,' Musk, whose Twitter account has more than 132 million followers, wrote in response to a video of right-wing...
Elon Musk and Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spar on Twitter over UN agency's role.GENEVA — Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday in a tweet that countries should not "cede authority" to the World Health Organisation, and the UN health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments.
"If any politician or businessperson, or anyone at all is confused about what the pandemic accord is and isn't, we would be more than happy to discuss it and explain it," Tedros said, in an apparent reference to Musk's comments.
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