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.

Disproof

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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  • Reported in: Issue 198
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 18/05/2020
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US, Russia
  • Keywords: coronavirus, vaccination, Bill Gates, Conspiracy theory
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Disinfo: The blockade of the economy under the pretext of coronavirus has been prepared for a long time

Coronavirus is a so-called pandemic. The economic crisis caused by the so-called pandemic was thought of a long time ago. The final decision to start a special operation, code-named COVID-19, was made at a closed meeting of the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos. The decision was announced a week later by the World Health Organization. As a result, Bill Gates, the American billionaire began to take over this organisation. His foundation became the main donor to WHO.

Disproof

A conspiracy theory about the coronavirus pandemic sharing a recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about "secret elites" controlling the world. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11 March, acknowledging that the virus had become a global phenomenon. Before that date, the situation was being described as an epidemic, illustrating that the virus had already spread to many people, and many communities, at the same time. As of 20th May, the total number of COVID-19 cases detected had passed 4.7 million. COVID-19 comes from a family of viruses originating in animals that include other viruses such as SARS and MERS. It was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading across the world, with cases being reported in over 190 countries, territories and areas. The number of COVID-19 global deaths has now passed 318,000. See related pro-Kremlin disinformation cases about the coronavirus.

Disinfo: Western elites implementing their plan X through pandemic

What is happening with the so-called pandemic in the world is the implementation of a certain plan of the Western elites. Or rather, transnational ruling classes. If the new coronavirus really was sudden for them, then COVID-19 appeared very much on time. In this case, it became the pretext for the implementation of a carefully thought-out plan X. In any case, we are dealing with the concealment of some kind of truth. One of two things: either this is a conspiracy of political leaders who, for some reason, are under the global “quarantine dictatorship”. Or the leaders received some secret information with no permission to disclose in order to avoid possible mass panic.

Disproof

This is a recurring conspiracy theory about the coronavirus pandemic, biological weapons, and one of the common pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about a Deep State or Shadow Government of all-powerful groups ruling the world and controlling leaders.This is part of the ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on the coronavirus, well documented by both media and governments. Elements of this campaign were widely reported by Russian and international publications, and by the European External Action Service. There is no evidence to support the claim that the coronavirus has been artificially created or developed as a biological weapon. The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) comes from a family of viruses that include other viruses such as SARS and MERS. It was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading, with new cases being reported in more than 200 countries around the world. Read other similar cases claiming that Pentagon-funded biological laboratories are involved in the creation of the coronavirus, that the coronavirus is a bioweapon brought to Italy by the “Deep State”, that COVID-19 is a bioweapon created by Soros, Bill Gates and the "Deep state", that COVID-19 is a fake and a political move to install hegemony, and that COVID-19 vaccines will lead to Full Spectrum Dominance by the Deep Dark State.

Disinfo: Russian media is more independent than its American counterpart

It has been the practice in the White House to invite representatives of the US media, and to give them some “advice” about what to focus on and what to neglect. In Moscow there is no such tradition, and any journalist or analyst has the right to write whatever they want.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative on Western media not being independent and biased while Russia protects freedom of speech and the press. Contrary to the claim, the Kremlin organises regular briefings with the leading media outlets to hand out instructions on how to write and about what.

According to the 2020 World Press Freedom Index, Russia is in 149th place out of 180 countries. On the other hand, the US according to the same index, ranks in 45th place.