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The internet is awash with conspiracy theories and fake news targeting
Bill Gates even as he pushes for a COVID-19 vaccine.
As the world battles coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of social
media users, conspiracy theorists yes, the sort of people who believe the earth
is flat and that moon landings never happened are proposing that Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates, who also happens to be the world’s second-richest
person, is behind the creation of coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic.
What are the conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates?
1. The conspiracy theorists have claimed that Bill Gates has developed a vaccine that would control and even depopulate the world through a microchip. In 2018, a report by Mysterious Times misquoted Gates and said that he had outlined a plan to depopulate the planet. “Make no mistake, when Gates talks about ‘making people healthier,’ what he is really talking about are enforcing the mandatory rollout of his range of experimental vaccinations. The same vaccines that have already caused mass sterilization and death on multiple continents," the website claimed. You can see the truth of it through below link:
https://www.mythdetector.ge/en/myth/does-bill-gates-promise-us-depopulation-and- chipping
Even a social
media post sharing a doctored photo of Gates Foundation & Real Photo as below:
2. In 2015, Gates had also warned the world of a
pandemic in a TED talk. He had said that a pandemic would take place in
the next decade and the pandemic could kill over 30 million people in the six
months similar to the 1918 pandemic that killed over 50 million people.
"The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it
prepares for war,” he had said.
See below video of TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxC9iWP3Ek
While Gates talking about a pandemic in his TED talk is real for someone who is involved in public health projects it is fairly natural and basic to talk of devastating pandemics, all that talk about the vaccine with micro-chips is bunkum.
Unfortunately, people are linking the talk Gates gave, which is not even a brilliant insight because it is a fairly common knowledge that pandemics from unknown pathogens are the biggest challenges mankind faces, to coronavirus.
Of late this linking has led to multiple posts on Facebook claiming that Gates-funded a research institute and helped in creating the novel coronavirus. A Humans Are Free article claimed that Gates partnered with research institutes to create a "weaponized viral strain designed to sell more useless, deadly vaccines, while at the same time killing off a few thousand, or perhaps a few million, people."
Apart from the crowd that believes that the world is run by shape-shifting lizards, the theories claiming Bill Gates created coronavirus so he can be some sort of mind-controlling mad billionaire are getting an endorsement from some public commentators.
Emerald Robinson, a White House correspondent, posted a series of tweets accusing Gates. She wrote, "The more you study this virus, the more you find the same name: Bill Gates.
He's the 2nd largest funder of WHO. He's building 7 vaccine labs. He basically controls global health policy. What's the plan? Using vaccines to track people."
The theories that Bill Gates is connected to coronavirus, and that he wants to benefit from the pandemic by pushing some vaccines that will track users, have spread through videos on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and through sites like InfoWars.
Gates, meanwhile, has called the claims crazy. In an interview on an interview with a China-based news channel CCTV, he said: "I'd say it's ironic if you take somebody who's doing their best to get the world ready. We are in a crazy situation so there's going to be crazy rumors.”
3. Misleading Facebook
post claims Bill Gates wants to introduce 'digital tattoos' to check who has
been tested. See the link below to know truth.
4. Facebook post claims French doctor urged
Africans to avoid a "Bill Gates vaccine" but it’s a false claimed and
see the reality by below link.
https://factcheck.afp.com/french-doctor-did-not-urge-africans-avoid-bill-gates-vaccine
5. “Event 201” was an exercise organised
in October 2019 to simulate what might happen if there was a severe pandemic
and Bill Gates was attended that meet so troller claimed that meeting was about
Covid19. See the fact by below link:
https://fullfact.org/health/event-201-coronavirus-pandemic/
6. The
Italian Government Did Not Seek Bill Gates' Arrest. See the fact by below link.
https://www.republicworld.com/fact-check/viral/fact-check-no-the-italian-government-did-not-seek-bill-gates-arrest.html
7. The 14-part letter states the novel coronavirus
pandemic has reminded humans about our equality, inter-connectedness
and limited longevity, as well as the importance of health and family; and
that the storm will pass but what remains is the fact that the Earth is
ill.
The author ended the
letter by concluding that the pandemic is not a disaster, but a "great
corrector". Gates Foundation urges
netizens to stop sharing fake 'Bill Gates coronavirus letter'
See the
below link for reality.
8. A video showing protesters
chanting “arrest Bill Gates” has been shared thousands of times on
Instagram and Facebook, with claims that Americans want the billionaire
arrested for producing a new vaccine for the novel coronavirus. This is misleading; no vaccine exists yet for COVID-19,
while the demonstration in question was organised for other reasons. See the link
below for fact:
https://factcheck.afp.com/video-shows-protest-against-lockdowns-us-search-vaccine-continues
9. The other conspiracy theory that is doing the rounds on the internet is the 5G conspiracy theory. As per claims, which too have been repeated by many people who are expected to know better, the newly-installed 5G networks are helping the virus spread. It has been speculated that the 5G towers are emitting radiation that is letting the virus propagate easily and affect more and more people. Some people have taken the claims so seriously that they have vandalized 5G towers in the UK, breaking them and setting them on fire.
This claim too is fake and bogus. There is no link between 5G technology and novel coronavirus. The virus is contagious and spreads from one human to another. 5G technology has absolutely no role to play here.
Exploiting the crisis
A number of accusations, including posts
claiming that the FBI arrested Gates for biological terrorism or that he
supports a Western plot to poison Africans, share a common thread.
They accuse the tycoon of exploiting the crisis,
whether it is to "control people" or make money from selling
vaccines.
It is not the first time Gates has found
himself at the mercy of conspiracy theorists. When Zika virus broke out in 2015
in Brazil, he was one of several powerful Western figures blamed for the
disease. Other rumours claim that he is secretly a lizard, an old favourite
among online trolls.
"He
hasn't become conspiracists' favourite target, he has been (their favourite
target) for a long time," Sylvain Delouvée, a social psychology researcher
at France's University of Rennes, told AFP.
Predicted the pandemic
The recent explosion in false claims could be explained as a coping
mechanism during the global crisis, Smith said. "People are constantly
looking for information to make sense out of this reality, and having these
conspiracies offers a convenient way of having power over your situation,"
he said.
The
pandemic has also provided fertile breeding ground for attacks on the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, particularly by anti-vaccine campaigners whose
influential online presence was already brewing years before the virus emerged.
The charity's humanitarian work
in Africa, where misinformation about Gates is particularly present, and
financial support of the World Health Organization -- it is the agency's
second-largest donor -- have fed rumours of dark secrets and ploys for power.
Several widely shared posts point to photographs of Gates attending a
"coronavirus conference" in 2015. Conclusion? He predicted the
pandemic.
In reality, he was meeting with a research institute that had filed for
a patent to potentially be used for a vaccine against a different type of
coronavirus that affects animals.
Like many scientists, Gates had already warned of an imminent pandemic
years before the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Conspiracies creeping into mainstream
Gates has also come under attack from celebrities. Conservative US
television host Laura Ingraham claimed in a tweet that Gates was developing
"tracking" mechanisms.
She was referring to a widely misinterpreted Reddit post by the
billionaire about "digital certificates" to show who has recovered,
been tested or -- eventually -- vaccinated.
Robert Kennedy Jr, the anti-Trump, anti-vaccine nephew of the former
American president John F Kennedy, has accused the philanthropist of dictating
global health policies. "We are his guinea pigs," he wrote in an
Instagram post attacking the entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, French "Chocolate" actress Juliette Binoche sparked
controversy when she blasted Gates on Instagram and called for the rejection of
"a microchip implant for all".
Debunking misinformation is "not about saying that everyone is a
good guy", said Delouvee at France's University of Rennes, pointing to
privacy concerns around the race to build coronavirus tracking apps and
governments' use of medical data.
The Gates Foundation has come under fire in publications such as The
Lancet medical journal, which accused it of a lack of transparency over its
financial investments.
Yahoo and YouGov's May survey didn't find that everyone
believed these conspiracy theories though. Forty-five percent of independents,
52% of Democrats and 63% of people who say they voted for Hillary Clinton in
2016 said they don't believe the conspiracy theory about Gates and vaccines.
A survey from Yahoo News and YouGov finds that the conspiracy theory is
popular among Fox News viewers, Republicans and Trump voters.
Another claim circulating on social media is that Gates
owns the “patent” for the SARS-CoV2, a virus that wasn’t even discovered until January 2020. The
theory goes that this entire pandemic thing is just to create a need for a
vaccine from which Gates will subsequently profit. This includes a variety of
posts on Facebook that are now labeled by Facebook as “false information, checked by
independent fact-checkers.” These posts claim that The Pirbright Institute, which is based in Surrey, England,
and has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, owns the patent
for this new coronavirus that’s causing the current pandemic.
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