American billionaire Bill Gates has categorically denied social media conspiracy theories accusing him of being behind the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gates said in an interview with CNN that these theories arose from a "bad mixture consisting of a pandemic and social networks and people looking for simplified explanations."

False journal articles, and composite and fake images, were widely spread on social media and in many languages. A video clip, for example, accuses Bill Gates of "wanting to get rid of 15% of the population" under the guise of vaccinating them, and millions watched this video on YouTube.

Gates added in his interview yesterday, Thursday: "Our organization has provided more money than any other group to buy vaccines in order to save lives."

He added that he hoped that these conspiracy theories would not alienate people from the vaccine when it was reached.

Gates has allocated a budget of $ 250 million to support the fight against the emerging corona virus, and his foundation has invested billions of dollars 20 years ago in developing health systems in poor countries.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, news validation teams at Agence France-Presse have monitored dozens of rumors targeting Gates in many languages, and on various social networks such as Facebook and Instagram.

And while Gates calls for the distribution of drugs and vaccines most in need, not to those who pay the most, the theories circulated accuse him of seeking to use the Corona virus crisis to "control people", some of which go so far as to talk about a plot of mass poisoning in Africa. It is reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogated Gates on charges of "biological terrorism".

Gates commented, "I am very convinced that the truth will be known," and that these conspiracy theories will be dissipated.

The pandemic was not only the subject of conspiracy theories, but also produced quantities of false rumors and news, especially in Latin America.
In Ecuador, for example, the false news ranged from the discovery of dead bodies on the beach to the spread of miraculous medicines, through others.

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