{
  "id": 15893690,
  "title": "Elon Musk’s Growing Death Toll: “What He Put Into the Woodchipper Were Children”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/elon-musks-growing-death-toll-what-he-put-into-the-woodchipper-were",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T12:58:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Futurism",
    "slug": "futurism",
    "url": "https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-woodchipper-children"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney highlighted the devastating impact of Elon Musk's cuts to USAID in a recent interview. According to Gibney, these cuts could have led to the death of up to 14 million individuals worldwide due to disease and starvation. In fact, within a year of the cuts, approximately 500,000 children lost their lives. Musk, in a shocking display of callousness, even made light of the situation by joking about \"putting USAID into the woodchipper.\" Gibney's documentary, titled \"Musk,\" is considered a \"hit piece\" by Musk, who has continuously denied any harm caused by his actions. A study published in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, estimated the devastating consequences of the USAID cuts, projecting over 14 million additional all-age deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five. A mathematical modeler at Boston University, Brooke Nichols, projected a 518,000 child death toll in the first year alone.",
  "summary": "\"500,000 children died.\" The post Elon Musk’s Growing Death Toll: “What He Put Into the Woodchipper Were Children” appeared first on Futurism .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}