Elon Musk voiced concerns about the effectiveness of philanthropy on a podcast, stating it’s challenging to ensure donated money truly benefits people, not just creates an appearance of goodness. This comes as US charitable giving hit a record $617 billion in 2025, with bequests and foundations showing significant growth. Musk also reiterated his criticism of MacKenzie Scott’s donations, calling them detrimental.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk voiced concerns about the effectiveness of philanthropy on a podcast, stating it’s challenging to ensure donated money truly benefits people, not just creates an appearance of goodness. This comes as US charitable giving hit a record $617 billion in 2025, with bequests and foundations showing significant growth. Musk also reiterated his criticism of… Read More »Giving USA 2026 report: US donations hit record $617.2bn; Musk questions charity impact<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":119130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}