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Elon Musk says Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott giving over $26.3 billion to charity is making the world a 'worse place'

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Tech tycoon Elon Musk has stirred a row after saying record-breaking, multi-billion-dollar philanthropic campaign of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott is harming society instead of doing charity.

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The contoversey erupted following reports that MacKenzie Scott has now distributed more than $26,300,000,000 (26.3 billion dollars) to charity. This makes her one of the biggest individual donors in human history. Scott has vowed to spend the majority of her massive Amazon fortune, which she got after splitting with Bezos in 2019, on helping others and making the world a better place. They got married in 1993.

However, reacting to the news, Musk lashed out and said her actions are having the opposite effect. Writing in a post on X, Musk said: "Sadly yes"

The Tesla boss replied to an X user who said: "Unfortunately, she’s spending it making the world a worse place"

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