Bill Gates is the favorite target of various conspiracy theories circulating about the coronavirus according with data collected from New York Times and Zignal Labs, a company that analyzes news sources.
Conspiracy theories linking Bill Gates to the virus have been reported 1,2 millions times on TV and social networks from February to April, 33% more times than the 2nd most popular conspiracy theory linking 5G by COVID-19, according to Zignal Labs, with 18,000 reports a day in April.
Conspiracy theories directed at the Microsoft co-founder are all over the place Internet: YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
The New York Times βρήκαν 16.000 διαφορετικές δημοσιεύσεις στο Facebook είχαν like και σχόλια σχεδόν 900.000 φορές. Τα 10 πιο δημοφιλή βίντεο στο Youtube με τις θεωρίες συνωμοσίας που συνδέουν τον Bill Gates και τον ιό προβλήθηκαν σχεδόν πέντε εκατομμύρια φορές τον Μάρτιο και τον Απρίλιο.
The "news" being spread varies, but revolves around the founder of Microsoft and that he created COVID 19 to benefit from a vaccine in the future, or that Bill Gates is part of a conspiracy that wants to wipe out humanity and/or that he wants to implement a global system monitoring.
A speech by Bill Gates from 2015, warns that the greatest threat to humanity is infectious diseases, not nuclear war. This speech has received 25 million comments in recent weeks.
According to the New York Times, there are many who claim that the video is evidence of Gates' formidable plan to use a pandemic for personal gain.
Although Gates himself declined to comment, Mark Suzman, chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told the NYT that he was "saddened that there are people spreading all this, when we all need to find ways to work together and save lives. ”
