Bill Gates Did Not Admit to Halting the Vaccine Effects Investigation
The Claim
Bill Gates admits to stopping an investigation into the vaccines' effects.
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Social media users shared a 33-minute video of Bill Gates speaking in which he admitted to obstructing an investigation into the vaccines' effects.
“This is a big bombshell. Bill Gates admitted how he stopped an investigation into the effects of vaccines by telling Trump to ‘not do it’ and that it was a ‘dead end’ Trump did what Gates wanted,” a verified Twitter account posted.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading.
The clip does not show Bill Gates admitting the interception of an investigation into the vaccines’ effects.
Bill Gates Reveals His Meetings With Trump in an Exclusive Video Interview
The video features Bill Gates addressing questions during a Gates Foundation staff meeting and explaining his conversation with former U.S. President Donald Trump.
In 2018, prior to COVID-19, a longer version of the clip was posted to YouTube. The title of the video, which was marked as exclusive, was "Bill Gates Dishes About Meetings With President Trump in Exclusive Video."
“...Science and innovation is a great thing you should be a leader who drives innovation, and that conversation was about a broad set of things in energy and health and education you know big things you want to do it or big HIV vaccine you could you know to accelerate that be associated with innovation,” the Microsoft co-founder said in the footage.
“So in March 2017 in the White House in both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill effects of vaccines and somebody whose name was Robert Kennedy jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things and I said no, that’s a dead end [unclear] don't do that,” he added.
“Both times, he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV. So I was able to explain those are rarely confused with each other,” he said.
In the full-length version of the circulating video, Bill Gates does not admit to obstructing an investigation.
Conspiracy Theories Against Bill Gates
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has been the target of numerous conspiracies, rumors, and allegations, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Misbar has previously debunked claims purporting that Bill Gates was planning to use microchip implants to combat the coronavirus. In addition to conspiracy theories claiming that Gates predicted the Monkeypox outbreak in 2021.
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