“Microsoft and Bill Gates created a 1999 video game called “Omikron.”
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Claim dated 17 Dec 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A game titled "Omikron: The Nomad's Soul" is real and was available to play on Microsoft Windows computers in November 1999, but it wasn’t developed by Microsoft or Gates. It has nothing to do with the pandemic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 December 2021. Its rating was “False”.
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