Did Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates or any of the business entities affiliated with him cause an egg shortage in the U.S.? No, that's not true: There is no evidence to support this theory. The claim appeared in a video on Instagram on Jan
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Truth or Fiction?→ ‘ExxonMobil Reported a Record-Smashing Profit of $55.7 BILLION in 2022 …’
On January 31 2023, Imgur user Mech0T1 shared a screenshot of a tweet, which contained a claim that ExxonMobil had reported $55.7 billion in profit for 2022: BREAKING: ExxonMobil reported a record-smashing profit of $55.7 BILLION in 2022.While taxpay
FactCheck.org→ Democrats Misleadingly Suggest Widespread GOP Support for FairTax Bill Unlikely to Become Law
Few Republican lawmakers have publicly supported a bill to replace most federal taxes with a national sales tax, a plan that has almost no chance of becoming law, or even passing in the GOP-led House of Representatives — certainly not in the 118
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – The Bill Gates egg shortage conspiracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
The U.S. chicken and egg shortage is linked to Bill Gates.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Damar Hamlin appeared at the Buffalo Bills’ game. Conspiracy theorists think otherwise.
Damar Hamlin wasn’t at the Buffalo Bills' playoff game.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Walt Disney Will NOT Replace Benjamin Franklin On $100 Bills In 2023
Will the face of Walt Disney replace Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill in 2023? No, that's not true: Neither the Walt Disney Company nor the U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced such a change as of January 23, 2023. The article
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Bill Gates didn’t tweet about adding vaccines to food to solve vaccine hesitancy
Bill Gates tweeted that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.”
Health Feedback→ Misrepresented 2018 clip of Bill Gates trigger inaccurate claims that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for livestock could transfer to people through diet
REVIEW A video published on Rumble on 10 January 2023 claimed that “Bill Gates Vows To Pump mRNA Into Food Supply To ‘Force-Jab’ the Unvaccinated”. As a thumbnail image, the video showed a photo of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and what se
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Post Tweet Vowing To ‘Force-Jab’ The Unvaccinated By Inoculating Livestock
Did Microsoft founder Bill Gates tweet about forcing COVID-19 vaccinations on people by injecting mRNA into their food supply? No, that's not true: A search of Gates' Twitter account reveals the tweet is fake. The claim appeared in an art
Logically→ Bill Gates admits that 700,000 people will be harmed or killed by his foundation’s COVID-19 vaccines.
A quote from an interview with Gates was taken out of context to fit an anti-vaccine narrative. COVID-19 vaccines are safe.
Logically→ Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and WHO planned another pandemic.
The event Catastrophic Contagion was held to create fictional exercises to help organizations and countries prepare for possible future pandemics.
Logically→ Bill Gates said he gets animals vaccinated to give them better genetics.
Gates's quote on helping animals survive with the help of vaccines or selective breeding has been misinterpreted to claim vaccines can alter genes.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Announce Date, Location Of Next Pandemic
Did Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, "announce" when and where the next pandemic will take place? No, that's not true: A video circulating on social media reused audiovisual material labeled as fictitious. The clip
Logically→ Electricity bills in Bengaluru will increase drastically once double meters are installed.
Older meters are being replaced with more accurate digital meters that may show a difference in electricity bills commensurate with usage.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT File A Billion Dollars In Lawsuits Against ‘Totally Unprepared’ Kathy Griffin
Did Elon Musk file a billion dollars in lawsuits against "totally unprepared" Kathy Griffin? No, that's not true: The site that posted the story and a "Fact Check" follow-up is satirical. There are clearly marked disclaimers on the websit
Logically→ Global elites such as Bill Gates and Dr Fauci lied about the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines to control the population.
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives ever since they were introduced. There is no scientific evidence to prove that vaccines cause death.
Full Fact→ Tampering with electricity meters to try and save on energy bills is illegal and dangerous
A Facebook post has suggested it’s possible to save on electricity bills by bypassing your meter with a piece of wire. This is illegal and can also be dangerous.
The Dispatch→ Why Can’t the Senate Pass Popular Bills?
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer talks to reporters Tuesday about the bipartisan federal omnibus spending legislation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)This week’s massive omnibus bill includes one of the most important election bills in
PolitiFact→ Ro Khanna – US trade deficit with China now $400 billion per year, much higher than in the 1990s
The U.S. "trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: California Did NOT Legalize Pedophilia With Senate Bill 145
Did California approve a Senate bill "this week" in December 2022 that "legalizes pedophilia"? No, that's not true: Senate Bill 145 passed in California in 2020, not 2022, and it's intended to protect LGBTQ minors from discriminatory laws
PolitiFact→ Kevin Brady – Biden’s $36 billion to save Teamsters fund from insolvency is largest-ever private pension bailout
Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”
Full Fact→ Online Safety Bill – Government has removed vital health misinformation protections
The Government had long promised that the Online Safety Bill would protect us from harm online. And until this recent Government announcement, that included the harms from online health misinformatio
Full Fact→ Government’s £28 billion public sector pay increase figure doesn’t factor in money returned in tax
The government says it would cost £28 billion, or £1,000 per household, to increase public sector pay in line with inflation next year. But many of the current disputes are about this year’s pay.
Logically→ Bill Gates’s Ted talk shows that the COVID-19 vaccine was intended to kill people to combat overpopulation.
Bill Gates did not talk about killing people with Covid 19 vaccines but how to tackle overpopulation by increasing global living standards.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, philanthropist Bill Gates didn’t say death panels ‘will soon be required’
“Bill Gates tells G20 world leaders that ‘death panels’ will soon be required.”
Logically→ Bill Gates was recorded admitting that climate change is a “WEF scam.”
It is clear that Bill Gates makes no such claim in the unedited version of this clip.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates NOT At G-20 Meeting, Has NOT Said ‘Death Panels’ Will Soon Be Required
Did billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates tell the world leaders gathered at the November 2022 Group of 20 (G-20) summit that "death panels" will soon be required? No, that's not true: Gates did not attend the conference in Indonesia, and
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Is Billionaire Bill Gates on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors?
A viral Instagram post suggests that billionaire Bill Gates is on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Primo Radical (@primoradical) Maricopa County is governed by five elec
Logically→ Ukraine donated billions of dollars to U.S. Democrats through the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange.
There is no concrete evidence supporting the claim that Ukraine funneled money back to U.S. Democrats via FTX. The accusations lack multiple facts.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates The Billionaire Is NOT On The Board Of Maricopa County
Is Seattle billionaire Bill Gates now chairman of the Maricopa County, Arizona Board of Supervisors? No, that's not true: A representative for Maricopa County told Lead Stories that a different Bill Gates serves Maricopa County. Gates the
Health Feedback→ Bill and Melinda Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates is fully vaccinated, including against COVID-19, despite online claims to the contrary
REVIEW As the COVID-19 vaccination campaign unfolded, some social media users began to claim that prominent individuals were in fact unvaccinated, as reported by Reuters and USA Today. Claims that COVID-19 vaccine advocates or those close to them re
Logically→ Bill Gates’s daughter Phoebe has not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and other diseases.
Bill Gates' daughters have both been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to their own public statements. Melinda Gates has also announced the same.
Full Fact→ Bill Gates’s daughter Phoebe Gates did have childhood vaccinations
Several sources of evidence suggest that she has also had the Covid-19 vaccine.
PolitiFact→ Kari Lake – Katie Hobbs backed bill to double Arizona gas taxes
Katie Hobbs “has voted to double our gas tax.”
Full Fact→ ‘New’ UK trade deals don’t account for ‘over £800 billion worth of new global trade’
Michael Gove tweeted a graphic claiming the UK has signed new trade deals with more than 70 countries, worth over £800 billion in new global trade. But the majority of these mirror previous EU deals.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Yes, Bill Gates’ children are vaccinated
Bill Gates’ daughters aren’t vaccinated.
PolitiFact→ Rick Scott – Rick Scott repeats false claim that Democrats cut $280 billion from Medicare
“All Democrats in the Senate and House voted to cut $280 billion out of Medicare just two months ago.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – US Senate bill doesn’t give FDA new power to approve dietary supplements
Proposed Senate bill would give FDA power to approve dietary supplements and “ban herbs.”
Poynter→ California’s covid misinformation bill just dropped. And it’s dividing doctors.
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it in your email every other Thursday. A COVID-19 misinformation bill in California, AB 2098, is […
PolitiFact→ Dan Bongino – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not spending $200 million on digital IDs
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million for digital IDs as part of a shift toward a “totalitarian society.”