DISINFO: The West is blackmailing everyone: if you don't go to Bill Gates for a vaccine, millions will die
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: tsargrad.tv (archived)*
  • Date of publication: May 18, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 198
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Russia
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coronavirus vaccination Bill Gates Conspiracy theory

DISINFO: The West is blackmailing everyone: if you don't go to Bill Gates for a vaccine, millions will die

SUMMARY

This is a matter of Russia’s security, which is quite frankly pushed to the limit: go to Bill Gates in the West and bow to him, get a vaccine, if you don’t go – millions will die. All this is too serious not to sound the alarm bells.

RESPONSE

Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative that blames the Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and other “global elites” for the COVID-19 pandemic and for trying to exploit the situation to increase their wealth, to reduce the world’s population and/or to create a global surveillance network by vaccinating people in order to secretly install tracking chips inside them. There is no evidence for any of these claims. Most conspiracy theories about Bill Gates’ alleged project to use microchip implants to fight the coronavirus are based on a March 19 article posted on the 'Biohackinfo' website (see here). The 'Biohackinfo' article misleadingly says that “quantum dot dye,” a technology indeed founded by the Gates Foundation, would be used as “human-implantable capsules that have ‘digital certificates’ which can show who has been tested for the coronavirus”. Kevin McHugh, one of the lead authors of the “quantum dot dye” research paper, said, “The quantum dot dye technology is not a microchip or human-implantable capsule and to my knowledge there are no plans to use this for coronavirus.” The 'Biohackinfo' article also misleadingly quotes one of Gates’s remarks made in an interview given to Reddit. In this interview, Gates did mention the possibility of having a “digital certificate” for health records “eventually,” but he did not say these certificates would be microchip implants. For a full debunking of this conspiracy theory against Bill Gates, see here. Read previous cases claiming that Bill Gates is planning to use microchip implants to fight the coronavirus, that Covid-19 will allow total control of the population through forced vaccination and chips and that Bill Gates, Rockefeller and other “global elites” seek to reduce the world’s population and that the survivors will be poisoned with vaccines.

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