Screenshot of World Economic Forum’s Tweet Is Altered

30th March 2022

Screenshot of World Economic Forum’s Tweet Is Altered

The image was shared on meme sites (Twitter).

The Claim

The World Economic Forum tweeted that chairman Klaus Schwab stated: "The internet must be reformed. There is far too much misinformation available," he adds, "This will be the next step in the Great Reset."

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Emerging story

Social media users have shared an image, which is allegedly a screenshot of a tweet from the World Economic Forum's official Twitter account.
The alleged screenshot depicts a statement attributed to chairman Klaus Schwab saying that “ the internet needs to be reformed and that this will be the next step in the Great Reset.”

pic.twitter.com/5miyVQzBOa
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) March 25, 2022

Klaus Schawb : The internet must be Reformed , too much misinfo out there.
Translation: too many people are exposing their lies, so they need to censor anyone trying to expose them pic.twitter.com/WIsZgTh5J4
— pesary bella (@pesarybella) March 26, 2022

Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be fake.

Our team has not found any evidence of such a tweet. We used the keywords “Klaus,” “Schwab,” and “Internet” on the Twitter advance search, and we did not find any similar tweet or statement on the verified World Economic Forum Twitter account.

Another advanced search on Google did not lead us to any relevant results. However, we found the same screenshot circulating on some meme-sharing websites and sarcastic pages like iFunny.

A supporting image within the article body

Based on our investigation, Misbar’s team confirms that the alleged screenshot is fabricated, since there is no evidence the World Economic Forum tweeted a similar statement.