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Disinfo: Bill Gates planning to use microchip implants to fight coronavirus

Summary

Bill Gates is going to create implantable capsules and digital health certificates to fight the coronavirus.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory on the coronavirus.

Bill Gates mentioned health certificates in a discussion on Reddit, but this has nothing to do with microchips. Later, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told Reuters, “The reference to ‘digital certificates’ relates to efforts to create an open source digital platform with the goal of expanding access to safe, home-based testing.”

See more disinformation cases accusing Bill Gates of sponsoring the novel coronavirus here, here and here.

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Tvalsazrisi
Zen.yandex.ru (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 192
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 03/04/2020
  • Language/target audience: Georgian, Russian
  • Country: US
  • Keywords: coronavirus, Bill Gates, Conspiracy theory

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April 13, 2020
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative that the novel coronavirus is man-made and spread by the US.

Charles Lieber’s arrest has nothing to do with the novel coronavirus. News about the arrest of Professor Charles Lieber, Chair of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Harvard University, first emerged on January 28, 2020. Lieber was accused of lying to the U.S. Department of Defense about his connections with China. The U.S. government deemed the cooperation a security concern.  A number of U.S. media outlets reported about the fact, while Harvard University released an official statement.

The US prepares its Marine Corps to deliver a blow against China

An inevitable confrontation? The US is preparing its marines to deliver a blow against China. The US Marine Corps is experiencing one of the most radical reforms in its recent history, being remodelled to be able to act in far corners of the world in new conditions. The goal is to prepare it to confront China in its zone of interest, the South China Sea.

April 13, 2020
Disproof

Though the reporting on the reform of the US Marine Corps is correct, there is a deliberate distortion of the information by stating that the US is preparing to “deliver a blow to China” in a perhaps “inevitable confrontation”, implying some kind of preparation for an attack against the country.

The mention of China’s “zone of interest” is also significant by taking Beijing’s claims over the territory for granted, in line with the Kremlin’s well-documented ‘sphere of influence’ policy. Actually, while China claims its sovereignty over 80 percent of the South China Sea territory, the US and other Western powers defend their right of access to key shipping and air routes in the region, regularly conducting “freedom of navigation” operations to ensure it. In 2018, France and UK also took part in one of these missions.