Rumors circulated on social media that Bill Gates had reversed his stance by not recommending the Corona vaccine because it was dangerous. Is this shocking news true?
The news was especially widely observed on Thai social media. It was mentioned that surprisingly, Bill Gates, who has been campaigning for vaccines to tackle the Corona pandemic, asked that all of the Corona vaccines be withdrawn from the market.
"We made a terrible mistake. We wanted to protect people from this dangerous virus. But then the virus turned out to be less dangerous than we thought. And the vaccine is far more dangerous than people imagine," reads the paper, which is claimed to be the words of the Microsoft founder. .
Some comments indicate that quite a lot of netizens believe in this news. "Fortunately I haven't been vaccinated." "I don't want to be vaccinated because I know this." write some of them.
Even though it is clear that this information is a HOAX, especially considering the fact that the Corona vaccine is really the main weapon in the fight against the pandemic. A spokesman for the Bill and Melinda Foundation said it was absolutely not true that Bill Gates had ever spoken like that.
"The claim is false," he said. A search from AFP then found the origin of this hoax article, namely from the satirical site Expose UK. They already apologized.
"When we first published this article, we should have made it clear at the start that this was satire, not the end. We didn't and we apologize," they wrote.
Bill Gates as a famous and influential figure has repeatedly been the target of wild conspiracy theories related to the Corona pandemic, but all of them have no evidence but only fake news or hoaxes.
