False Claim About Bill Gates Calling to 'Depopulation by Vaccines' Resurfaces
A photo showing a newspaper, 2011 edition of Ireland-based newspaper The Sovereign Independent, claiming that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to reduce the world population through "forced vaccination" has resurfaced online.
The front page headline says, “Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination: The Zero Carbon Solution”.
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What's the truth?: This claim is false. This article incorrectly suggests that Gates wants to depopulate the world through vaccinations.
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It links this to Gates' speech in 2010, wherein he stated that vaccinations can reduce child mortality, which in turn will lead to reduced birth rates, population growth and lesser carbon emissions
How did we find out the truth?: We performed a keyword search and found that the viral cover image is of the fourth edition of the Ireland-based newspaper, The Sovereign Independent, which was published in 2011.
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According to a note by its editor Dave Derby, the first edition was published in 2009. However, this newspaper is not available online now.
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We noticed that the paper often shared conspiracy theories in 2011.
What did the article claim?: We accessed the archived version of this newspaper's June 2011 version, which can be seen here.
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It mentioned an old quote from Gates about the population in the wrong context.
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Plus, the article was attributed to Rachel Windeer.
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The quote was picked up from a 2010 TED Conference (transcript can be seen here), which reads, “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”
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But in this speech, “Innovating to Zero”, Gates discussed ways the world could bring down carbon emissions and suggested that one of the ways was by reducing population growth through improving healthcare.
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This statement was picked up by the newspaper and shared out of context. In reality, Gates suggested that population growth can be reduced by 10 to 15 percent, so he was not talking about the population itself.
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Moreover, he also points out other factors, such as the services used by every individual, which require heavy energy and carbon emissions.
Conclusion: An old newspaper carrying a misleading claim about Bill Gates calling to reduce population by using vaccination has gone viral again.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
