Elon Musk Gets Into Heated Twitter Battle Over Who’s Role in Rules for the World
Elon Musk and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), battled on Twitter over the potential dangers of a sweeping, legally binding global agreement under discussion to combat future pandemics.
“Countries should not cede authority to WHO,” Musk tweeted Thursday in response to a video of Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts criticizing the United Nations’ health agency and what both supporters and opponents informally call a “pandemic treaty” that has been in the works.
Ghebreyesus quickly responded to Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, rejecting the notion that a pandemic treaty would undermine national sovereignty and centralize too much power in the hands of the WHO, as critics allege.
“Countries aren’t ceding sovereignty to [the WHO],” tweeted Ghebreyesus. “The pandemic accord won’t change that. The accord will help countries better guard against pandemics. It will help us to better protect people regardless of whether they live in countries that are rich or poor.”
Countries aren’t ceding sovereignty to @WHO. The #PandemicAccord won’t change that. The accord will help countries better guard against pandemics. It will help us to better protect people regardless of whether they live in countries that are rich or poor. https://t.co/kYYtyOrh0u
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 23, 2023
At the WHO’s weekly news conference later on Thursday, Ghebreyesus dismissed claims that the pandemic treaty would have countries cede power to the WHO as “quite simply false” and “fake news,” in an apparent reference to Musk’s comments. (Read more from “Elon Musk Gets Into Heated Twitter Battle Over Who’s Role in Rules for the World” HERE)
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