Much of the media coverage of the issue has centered around Musk's response to David Beasley, director of the UN's World Food Programme, who told CNN last week that a $6 billion donation from Musk could rescue 42 million people who are "literally going to die if we don't reach them."

Dr. Eli David pointed out that the UN World Food Programme (WFP) couldn't "solve world hunger" with a budget of $8.4 billion.

"If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it," responded Musk, adding, "But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent."

Beasley responded by clarifying that the money would be a "one-time donation to save 42 million lives during this unprecedented hunger crisis" and wouldn't actually solve world hunger, but that the money would be subject to "transparency and open source accounting."

Musk then asked Beasley "What happened here?" along with a link to an Express article headlined 'Starving children 'as young as NINE forced to give UN officials oral sex to get food'.

The article details a report exposing how UN peacekeepers "orally and anally raped" children in the Central African Republic and how top officials at the UN's children agency, UNICEF ignored the scandal in an apparent attempt to cover it up.

"No one has been arrested more than a year and a half after UN authorities were made aware of the sexual abuse allegations," the report, which was published in 2015, concluded.

Most of the media reports concerning the Twitter exchange didn't even mention Musk challenging Beasley about the child abuse sex scandal.