In 2015, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned during a speech that the greatest threat to humanity was not a nuclear war, but a pandemic virus that would kill millions of people.
The video of the speech resurfaced in recent weeks and has been viewed more than two and a half million times on YouTube, but it did not have the impact that Bill Gates would have wanted.
Instead, right-wing conservatives, anti-vaccines, and conspiracy theorists in America and Europe have targeted one of the world’s richest men.
Bill Gates was cited more than 1.2 million times during conspiracy theories on TV and social media between February and April, according to the New York Times and social media analytics company Zignal Labs.
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are everywhere spreading rumors against Bill Gates and it is being said that covid-19 was created by Bill Gates to make profit from his vaccine.
According to the report, 16,000 posts on Facebook were discovered that received more than 9 million likes and comments, while the 10 most popular YouTube videos spreading false information about Bill Gates were 50 during March and April. Millions of views.
In all these posts or videos it is being said that Bill Gates created the virus, is a plot to destroy humanity or implement a global surveillance system.
Bill Gates has been criticizing the US president for a long time and recently called it dangerous to suspend funding to the World Health Organization.
In an article in the Washington Post on March 31, he wrote “There is no doubt that the United States missed the opportunity to prevent the novel coronavirus and the effects such as the increase in cases, shutdown of the economy and deaths are visible”.
Bill Gates or his representative declined to comment on the report, but Mark Suzman, chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said, “It’s very hurtful that people are spreading rumors like this at a time when we’re all working together. Lives should be saved by finding ways to do it.
According to the report, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook said that they are struggling for rumors regarding the corona virus.
In January, the Gates Foundation announced $100 million to help medical workers in China and Africa.
In an article written for the New England Journal of Medicine in February, Bill Gates described the virus as the pandemic of the century.
This month, he also announced that his organization will spend billions of dollars to build factories for the 7 best vaccines.
On Wednesday, the Gates Foundation announced that it would spend $250 million to fight the virus, most of which will be spent in Africa and South Asia.
On Wednesday, when Bill Gates thanked medical staff in a social media post, one comment read, “This virus is a very, very big lie.”
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2024-08-28 05:40:11
