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Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-10-05): - ^ Cao, Sissi (April 28, 2021). "Bill Gates' Comments On COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Draw Outrage". Observer. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved January 2, 2022. [...] - ^ Wakefield, Jane (June 6, 2020), "How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies", BBC, archived from the original on November 7, 2022, retrieved November 7, 2022 - ^ Wakabayashi, Daisuke; Alba, Davey; Tracy, Marc (April 17, 2020), "Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target", The New York Times, archived from the original on December 9, 2020, retrieved November 7, 2022 - ^ Gates, Bill (July 24, 2020), Bill Gates' message to Covid-19 conspiracy theorists, interviewed by Anderson Cooper, CNN, archived from the original on October 17, 2022, retrieved November 7, 2022 - ^ Sandler, Rachel. "Bill Gates Explains Why He Doesn't Own Any Cryptocurrency". Forbes. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2018-10-17): But Allen, who died Monday at age 65 from complications with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was still best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, the company he started with Bill Gates in 1975 and left eight years later.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2018-10-16): Reacting to the death of his friend, Gates said Allen wasn’t happy with creating just one company. "He channeled his intellect and compassion into a second act focused on improving people’s lives and strengthening communities in Seattle and around the world," Gates wrote. "He was fond of saying, ‘If it has the potential to do good, then we should do it’". [...] "As co-founder of Microsoft, in his own quiet and persistent way, he created magical products, experiences and institutions, and in doing so, he changed the world," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote on Twitter.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2023-04-05): William Henry Gates III is best known as the founder and leader of Microsoft. He created the company in 1975 with his business partner Paul Allen. Though Paul Allen left the company some years later, William H. Gates remained with Microsoft for decades, heading it as the CEO until he left the position in 2000. [...] As of 2023, Bill Gates is 67 years old. He was born on October 28, 1955. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he often spoke about the benefits of masks for older individuals. [...] Bill Gates is well known for founding Microsoft and being a shrewd, relentless businessman. But he's also known for his philanthropic efforts.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2023-02-17): Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wrote a tribute to Paul in The Atlantic. The following is an excerpt:
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2020-03-24): A false Bill Gates quote about "spirituality" and the novel coronavirus appeared on social media on Sunday; within a day, after being shared by some verified Facebook pages with millions of followers, it was written up by two of Britain's biggest news publishers. [...] The lengthy quote falsely attributed to Gates describes the "spiritual" purpose behind the coronavirus. [...] Although the "spirituality" quote is false, Gates has spoken at length about the coronavirus, recently taking part in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-08-26): How do we act on this "low probability" risk? As a nation, we have not yet faced our current climate crisis, and had a bad record of acting early on the current COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine hearing that nobody could have predicted the coronavirus pandemic, if you wrote a book and gave talks warning about it 5 years ago. That happened to Bill Gates, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, and Michael T. Osterholm, epidemiologist and infectious disease expert. They both predicted a pandemic with a new or "novel" virus to which nobody would have immunity. Many infectious disease and public health doctors warned we were not prepared for it. Bill Gates told Donald Trump in December, 2016 that we needed to get ready for dealing with a pandemic.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2022-11-01): The second type of thing that people think about Bill Gates is mostly found online. After I had my first dose of the Covid vaccine last year, I started joking that I was experiencing some strange side effects. A sore arm, a woozy nausea that lasted for days—and a burning, urgent desire to buy and consume Microsoft products. In my sweaty bed I had delirious visions of Excel spreadsheets, of myself as a speck of data tumbling down the columns of cells, giddy and growing. I had an itch over every inch of my skin; I needed to be rubbed down with a Surface Duo dual-touchscreen device with Qualcomm Adreno 640 GPU. I was jonesing, like an addict, to load some search terms into Bing. The joke was, of course, that a lot of people believe that the Covid vaccine is part of an evil plot by Bill Gates to plant mind-control chips in our brains, or sterilize us, or simply kill us outright, as part of his crusade to end overpopulation. For certain conspiracy theorists, Bill Gates has become a kind of demiurge, the invisible enemy putting on the vast theater of our world.
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2020-04-01): A long letter attributed to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has gone viral on social media platforms, where the billionaire has purportedly claimed that novel coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose" and is "a great corrector". [...] On March 25, 2020, Gates participated in a TED Talk where he spoke about how we should face the pandemic, but nowhere did he say that coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose". [...] Even in this article, he has not claimed that novel coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose".
Claim: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote a long statement about the "spiritual purpose" of the new coronavirus (Viral Post, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-07-20): There's a great story I read in a deep dive on Microsoft written by Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI). In it, he tells the story from a book about the founding of Microsoft and its "prophet" co-founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. This quote is a mix of MBI's deep dive and the book:
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-01-22): The claim stems from a Twitter account that posts satirical content. A Fox News spokesperson said the claim is false in an email to Check Your Fact.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-02-21): The most compelling example of Fox News consciously lying to its viewers, however, arrived yesterday with the evidence in the defamation lawsuits filed by the voting-machine company Dominion, over claims aired on Fox News echoing Trump’s lie that the 2020 election had been fixed by compromised voting machines. Dominion’s latest filing argues that privately, Fox News hosts admitted that the allegations of election fraud being floated by Trump allies were baseless, but they kept airing them, in part because they feared that another right-wing network, Newsmax, was stealing their audience. The filing shows that when Fox News reporters shot down the allegations publicly, the network’s big personalities were livid, complaining internally that telling their viewers the truth was hurting the network’s brand. [...] There is also a story here about how social media and analytics can compel even powerful media institutions to meet a strong demand for falsehoods. Fox News executives understood that the election-fraud allegations were nonsense, and they also understood that their audience wanted to hear them. Misinformation and propaganda are not novel problems, but modern technology renders the incentives to lie to an audience particularly clear, and the means to reach that audience particularly easy to access. There will always be a potentially profitable demand for self-flattering lies; ethical people and institutions resist supplying them. The ability of individual hustlers to amass an audience of sycophants by feeding them conspiracies puts pressure on more mainstream outlets to gently appease conspiracism, if not to fully capitulate to it.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-02-18): On November 9, Carlson wrote to Scott, "I’ve never seen a reaction like this, to any media company. Kills me to watch it." Scott shared the message with Rupert’s son Lachlan, the CEO of the Fox Corporation and a Carlson ally. On that day, Dominion alleges, "Fox executives made an explicit decision to push narratives to entice their audience back." One snippet of texts shows Scott telling Lachlan that viewers were "going through the 5 stages of grief." Angling to impress her boss, she said that the Arizona projection was damaging, "but we will highlight our stars and plant flags letting the viewers know we hear them and respect them." What a curious word—respect. Journalists are taught that to respect the audience means to report the truth clearly and carefully. But inside Fox, which is first and foremost a provider of entertainment, respect meant something else. Reading the texts and emails, I was reminded of another thing the Fox & Friends producer had said. "We were deathly afraid" of the audience, he admitted, "but we also laughed at them. We disrespected them. We weren’t practicing what we preached."
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-02-28): Yet a panic set in as pro-Trump viewers abandoned Fox News following the Arizona call. And when hosts scrambled to promote Trump's false claims of fraud, Fox News executives seized on it as a valuable strategy, according to the evidence presented by Dominion, even as at least two of Fox's corporate directors and a top corporate official took exception.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-03-21): A Fox News producer’s discrimination lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. provides a wider glimpse into the network’s alleged cultural problems, dealings with prominent Republicans and finger-pointing following a $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-03-07): Stirewalt and Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon argued that the network needed to level with their viewers. The private exchanges that arose from the lawsuit show many of Fox's opinion hosts and executives instead decided to broadcast claims of fraud, knowing they were baseless, in an effort to woo back the Trump voters Fox had alienated.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-03-11): The network’s election night declaration that Joe Biden had won in Arizona, ahead of any other news organization, infuriated its viewers. Many were sympathetic to former President Donald Trump’s claims of significant voter fraud even if, then as now, there has been no evidence of that. After she covered a Nov. 19 news conference with Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, then-Fox reporter Kristin Fisher said her boss in Washington, Bryan Boughton, called to say he was unhappy with her report. She said she was told she needed to do a better job of "respecting our audience," according to documents released in the case. "I believed that I was respecting our audience by telling them the truth," Fisher, who now works at CNN, testified in a deposition on the Dominion case. She later claimed that airtime was taken away from her in retaliation. Heinrich drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump’s claims. In a text message, Carlson profanely said she should be fired.
Claim: purports a Fox News executive producer said disrespecting their viewers' intelligence was their most 'profitable' business decision (Post, 2023-01-22)
Evidence (2023-03-21): A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network’s lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation case against the company.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2020-04-15): There is no evidence to support the claim. The organizations mentioned in the article have been linked to conspiracy theories in the past.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2020-05-22): An article shared on Facebook more than 400 times claimed Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. [...] The article, published by the website NBCM News, alleges that the queen and husband Prince Philip were found guilty in 2013 by "six judges of the International Common Law Court of Justice" in the Belgian capital of Brussels. "After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia," the article alleged. "Grieving parents haven’t seen their children since they left for a picnic with the Royal couple on Oct. 10 1964."
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2022-09-13): For many Britons, the Queen was a steadying force, revered by her subjects for the virtues—duty, honor, and devoted service—she embodied and symbolized. Others, including those from the former empire, refuse to mourn, condemning Elizabeth II for alleged direct knowledge of and complicity in British colonial crimes, including murder and torture. Some see her complicity as more subtle, obscuring through decades of reassuring rituals and acts of omission the systemic racism and extreme violence upon which Britain’s imperial power, and hers, depended.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2018-06-11): After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. [...] Last October in Kitchener Ontario Canada Steve Finney was trying to expose this same Ninth Circle Satanic Cult case on 50,000 missing native children that included Queen Elizabeth’s kidnapping charges-conviction. Finney was arrested without cause and held in prison for three days. Protests around the globe organized by the ITCCS appeared effective in Finney’s release. [...] The first prosecution in the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels concerned 50,000 missing native Canadian children and included Queen Elizabeth’s kidnapping case.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2021-07-20): Queen Elizabeth did not kidnap 10 children from a Canadian school [...] The July 20 post is a rehash of a long-debunked claim: "After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were found guilty in the disappearance of 10 native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. An arrest warrant was issued by six judges of the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels." [...] A Facebook post claimed that Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2021-07-26): The claim: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were found guilty for children's disappearance in Canada [...] "Did you know in 2013, after nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia?" the caption says. [...] - National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, accessed July 22, About - CBC, Jan. 7, 2014, New documents may shed light on residential school deaths - Union of Ontario Indians, accessed July 22, An Overview of the Indian Residential School System - User indigenous1492, June 20, Instagram post - NBCM News, January 2020, Queen Elizabeth found guilty in missing children case - whistleblowers incarcerated - Check Your Fact, May 22, 2020, Fact check: Was Queen Elizabeth found guilty in the disappearance of 10 Canadian children?
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2024-10-09): "Just a reminder that the queen was found guilty of the murder of 10 canadian Indigenous children she and prince Philip took on a 'picnic' to the woods once day while visiting and they were never seen again," says a September 8, 2022 tweetthat attracted thousands of interactions. [...] "After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia," says text in a September 9 Facebook post. "Grieving parents haven't seen their children since they left for a picnic with the Royal couple on Oct. 10 1964." [...] The claim that Queen Elizabeth II was responsible for the disappearance of 10 Indigenous children in Western Canada in 1964 is not new. Fact-checking organization Snopes traced it back to 2010.The rumor recirculated after the unmarked graves of 215 children were found on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia in May 2021.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2020-05-14): Was Queen Elizabeth found guilty in a missing children murder case? No, this is not true: A claim that the British monarch tried and convicted in the disappearance of 10 native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia is completely made up. There is no evidence such a crime ever occurred. The story appeared as an article (archived here) published by Canadian website NBCM.ca in January 2020 under the title "QUEEN ELIZABETH FOUND GUILTY IN MISSING CHILDREN CASE - WHISTLE BLOWERS INCARCERATED." It opened: [...] After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. Grieving parents haven't seen their children since they left for a picnic with the Royal couple on Oct. 10 1964.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2016-02-01): OVER 50,000 NATIVE CHILDREN WERE TORTURED, SEXUALLY ABUSED AND SOME MURDERED AT CANADIAN CHURCH RUN INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS – AND THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WAS FOUND CULPABLE FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE OF 10 NATIVE CHILDREN SHE TOOK HERSELF IN PERSON AND WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN! [...] In the second week of May 2014, British soldier Vivian Cunningham was drugged and institutionalized against his will. Apparently, his "crime" on May 6 was daring to ask superiors about Queen Elizabeth’s outstanding arrest warrant concerning the 10 missing Canadian native children that disappeared in her company. The Queen is ‘untouchable’ because of the powers that be that protect her – and share in her esoteric activities. [...] After nearly a year of litigation, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Phillip, were found guilty in the disappearance of ten native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. Grieving parents haven’t seen their children since they left for a picnic with the Royal couple on Oct. 10 1964.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2022-06-01): A Facebook post falsely claims that the Queen was found guilty in a missing children case. The post states that a whistleblower was "incarcerated" for "daring to ask superiors about Queen Elizabeth’s outstanding arrest warrant", which was supposedly issued in 2013 by the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels and led to the Queen and Prince Philip being "found guilty in the disappearance of 10 native children from the Catholic-run Kamloops residential school in British Columbia". The Queen and Prince Philip were not found guilty in any real court case about missing children, nor issued with a real arrest warrant in connection with the disappearance of children from Kamloops Residential School, which the couple did not visit in 1964 as the post claims, or any other school. The International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels is not a real court or a legally recognised body. There is no evidence of the whistleblower mentioned in the post being real either.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2021-05-29): The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II was found guilty in connection to the disappearance of 10 Canadian children. (Viral story, 2020-04-15)
Evidence (2022-09-14): Queen Elizabeth is not innocent of the Crown’s crimes