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Truth or Fake - Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of ‘creating’ hantavirus outbreak

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 309 words · By Vedika BAHL
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Covid-era conspiracy theories accuse Bill Gates of ‘creating’ hantavirus outbreak To display this content from YouTube, you must enable

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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that he’s [Bill Gates] a top contributor to the World Health Organisation via his foundation. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: he’s [Bill Gates] a top contributor to the World Health Organisation via his foundation.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “he’s [Bill Gates] a top contributor to the World Health Organisation via his foundation”
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Web search results explicitly state that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among the top financial contributors to the WHO, alongside the US and Germany.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Mic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third-wealthiest …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_French_Gates
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Claim 2: “the WHO has remained firm in its assessment that hantavirus is unlikely to become a pandemic at all”
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Multiple sources, including a direct report on the WHO's assessment and The Guardian, confirm that the WHO and experts believe hantavirus is unlikely to become a pandemic.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Geneva,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The director-general of the World Health Organization is the chief executive officer of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the principal advisor to the United Nations on matters pertaining to glo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director-General_of_the_World_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. In 1948, the W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Day
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Claim 3: “an episode of The Simpsons “predicted” the hantavirus outbreak years ago”
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Multiple independent web sources (Irish Star and other news reports) state that fans and social media users are linking a Simpsons episode to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of a dysfunctional middle-class American lifestyle starring the epony…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of American …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons created by Matt Groening. The film was directed by David Silverman and stars Dan Castell…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie
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Claim 4: “the number of confirmed hantavirus cases from the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius reaches 9”
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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant (definitions of the number 9, a news website homepage, and a movie IMDb page). No evidence was found to confirm or deny the number of cases on the MV Hondius.
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web search NEUTRAL — 9 is the fourth composite number, a square, a Motzkin number, and the number of derangements of 4 items. Casting out nines is a quick way of testing the calculations of sums, differences, products, an…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9
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web search NEUTRAL — Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the ...
https://www.nine.com.au/
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine: Directed by Rob Marshall. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori. Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives…
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0875034/
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Claim 5: “In a clip from his 2025 interview on ABC’s ‘The View,’ Gates warned that future pandemics could be worse than the coronavirus, saying: “It won’t be the last pandemic. The next one could be far more severe.””
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The claim specifies a 2025 interview on 'The View'. However, the evidence shows Bill Gates gave a TED Talk in 2022 discussing pandemic preparation and a 2014 Rolling Stone interview. There is no evidence of a 2025 interview on 'The View' making this specific statement; the provided evidence suggests the claim may be a misattribution or fabrication of a 2022 TED Talk context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Mic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as the Codex Hammer) is a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The codex is named after Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marla Ann Maples (born October 27, 1963) is an American singer, television personality, model, actress and presenter. She was the second wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Maples
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Claim 6: “hantavirus was mentioned in the Epstein Files”
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The evidence provided discusses the Epstein files in general or unrelated videos, but none of the sources mention hantavirus being included in those files.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Epstein files comprise over six million pages of documents detailing the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far about three and a half million fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Ep…
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web search NEUTRAL — The filing also claims Epstein told the “sex-slave” to “give the Prince whatever he demanded.”The claim was mentioned by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in a 2011 email exchange with a journalist fro…
https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/news/all-the-a-listers-named-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — Secret KGB UFO Files - UFO crash site Sverdlovsk, USSR 1969. 2:59.Footage from Tehran as the IAF unleashes another wave of attacks in the heart of the city. 0:15.
https://vk.com/video12169348_456242157
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.