“Bill Gates tweeted that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 19 Jan 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Bill Gates didn’t post a tweet in support of adding vaccines to the food supply to solve vaccine hesitancy. This fake tweet appears to come from a site called NewsPunch, which featured the image in a false story.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 January 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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