Melinda Gates

In the year 2015, an unpretentious-looking Bill Gates On Stage conference in Vancouver, came to the TED on the subject of a serious warning.

"If you kill anything More Than 10 million people in The Next few decades probably, it is a highly contagious virus, instead of war," He Said to The Audience .

His ground-breaking words took some of the cover, at The Time , - which, however, went largely unnoticed.

But now, the video of this lecture has now been viewed 64 million times - with many people more interested in the reasons behind this speech as the speech itself.

Some accuse him of leading class of global elites. Others believe that he is leading efforts to depopulate The World .

Even more to accuse him of vaccinations required to, or attempt to implant microchips in people.

"There are countless conspiracies, Bill Gates surrounding it," says Rory Smith , of fact-checkers First draft of the message.

"He is this type of Voodoo Doll that all of these communities are stinging with their own conspiracies. And it is not surprising, he has the Voodoo Doll " - since he always has The Face of Public Health . "

theories that have been incorrectly mentioned linking Bill Gates to the coronavirus 1. 2 million times on TV or Social Media between February and April,

a Lot of content posted to the public Facebook groups, from where it is released, millions of times.

the first design-News has also found that the Chinese viral video Website TikTok will always be a new home for such conspiracies.

The Bbc 's anti-disinformation team was in love with the exploration of some of the more unusual.

So, how has The Founder of Microsoft, who has billions of amounts in the global Health care from the philanthropic foundation he runs with his wife Melinda are the bogeyman of the Covid-19 a conspiracy theorist?

Prof Joseph Uscinski , a political scientist at the University of Miami and author of books about Conspiracy Theories , believes it simply Because he is rich and famous.

"Conspiracy Theories are doing about accusing powerful people of Terrible Things ," he told The Bbc . "The theories are basically the same, only The Names change.

"Prior to Bill Gates , it was George Soros and the Koch brothers and the Roth childs and the Rockefellers. "

And while most of the Conspiracy Theories "die on the vine", The Ones that endure are those that offer the "great villains and topics of interest to the people".

"It should come as no surprise that the rich are accused of people and large companies, to put The Conspiracy chips in the neck, Because the one thing we fear," He Said .

"The ammunition of Conspiracy Theories for a long, long Time . "

While he thinks that such conspiracies have "without a leash to The Truth at all," the people seem to still fall for you.

More Than a quarter of all Americans and 44% of Republicans, a Covid-19 vaccine for the Implantation of microchips under The Skin to believe that Bill Gates wants to, according to A Survey by Yahoo News, and YouGov.

Mr. Smith thinks, that it ripped often a "core truth", the "Way Out of context".

So, for example, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Last Year , with the possibility of storing patient vaccination history in a pattern of coloring. It would be invisible to the Naked Eye , and can be delivered under The Skin at the same Time as a vaccine.

It is difficult to determine whether the root for Conspiracy Theories , But it is thought, The Internet makes it spread more.

"Before The Internet , they were independent and existed only in their own echo-chambers or bubbles within certain communities, But The Internet allows you to think about traveling the political lines between the communities, so I, it's a lot more scope for the mainstream Conspiracy Theories , said than it was before The Internet ," Mr Smith .

And, he added, Conspiracy Theories had particularly flourished during this global pandemic, Because people are "mentally vulnerable".

"This crisis is unprecedented in size and scope, and the advice shifts when new studies are published. There are large areas of uncertainty, and people abhor uncertainty," He Said .

To deal with it, to make individuals resort to something he calls, collective sense.

"We have access to all the information to inject some kind of meaning and order, and that is when the rumor mill starts. Conspiracy Theories - and especially Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories - fill this information vacuum. "

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has committed $300m (£240m) for the control of the Covid-19, remained sanguine about the flood of false claims.

In a statement to The Bbc which said: "We Are concerned about the Conspiracy Theories spread online, and the damage they could cause, and the Public Health .

"In a Time like this, when The World is facing an unprecedented economic and Health crisis, it is shocking that there are people, the spread of misinformation, if we should we all look for ways to collaborate and save lives. Right now, one of The Best things we can do to stop the spread of Covid-19 the dissemination of the facts. "

In an interview with The Bbc , Bill Gates expressed surprise that he was the figurehead of such theories.

"It is worrying that there is so much craziness. If we develop the vaccine, we want to take 80 percent of the population, it is, and if you have heard, it is an action, and We Are not the people willing to take the vaccine for the disease to continue to kill people. "

I'm a bit surprised that something focused by him on me. We give money, we write a check. and Yes, we want to think about it, let's protect children against the disease, But it has nothing to do with chips and stuff like that. You almost Sometimes have to laugh. "

Source of news: bbc.com