Speculation about a future coronavirus vaccine is ramping up and social-media posts from anti-vaccination campaigners are gaining more traction online.

We've been debunking a few recent claims.

Why the microchip rumours don't stack up
First up, a conspiracy theory about vaccines that has spanned the globe.

It claims that the coronavirus pandemic is a cover for a plan to implant trackable microchips and that the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is behind it.

We've found no evidence to support these claims.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told the BBC the claim was "false".

Graphic labelled "no evidence" showing screenshots about the Bill Gates vaccine rumours
The head of the Russian Communist party this week said that so-called "globalists" supported "a covert mass chip implantation which they may in time resort to under the pretext of a mandatory vaccination against coronavirus".

He didn't mention Mr Gates by name but in the US, Roger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, said Bill Gates and others were using the virus for "microchipping people so we can tell 'whether you've been tested'."

A new YouGov poll of 1,640 people suggests that 28% of Americans believe that Bill Gates wants to use vaccines to implant microchips in people - with the figure rising to 44% among Republicans.

Rumours took hold in March when Mr Gates said in an interview that eventually "we will have some digital certificates" which would be used to show who'd recovered, been tested and ultimately who received a vaccine. He made no mention of microchips.

That response led to one widely shared article, under the headline: "Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus".

The article makes reference to a study, funded by The Gates Foundation, into a technology that could store someone's vaccine records in a special ink administered at the same time as an injection.

However, the technology is not a microchip and is more like an invisible tattoo. It has not been rolled out yet, would not allow people to be tracked and personal information would not be entered into a database, says Ana Jaklenec, a scientist involved in the study.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says: "The reference to 'digital certificates' relates to efforts to create an open-source digital platform with the goal of expanding access to safe, home-based testing."

False claim in a Tweet about Bill Gates' comments regarding the side-effects of any future vaccine
Bill Gates did not say this about a vaccine
The Microsoft billionaire has been the target of many different false rumours about vaccines .

A recent post on a UK-based Twitter account said: "Bill Gates admits the vaccine will no doubt kill 700,000 people" and links to a video featuring right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The claim in the tweet, which has had more than 45,000 retweets and likes, is false and misrepresents Gates' words.

In the video, Mr Gates is talking about the efficacy of vaccines in older people and cautions about the risk of side-effects.

He sets out a hypothetical situation about the potential harm of side-effects, saying:"If we have one in 10,000 side-effects, that's way more... 700,000 people who will suffer from that."

He does not "admit" 700,000 will die from a vaccine.

Conspiracy theories about Bill Gates have reached the Italian Parliament, where an independent MP called for Bill Gates to be referred to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
Pandemic for profit?
There is a strong anti-vaccination movement in Italy .

One popular Italian video, which has been viewed more than 700,000 times on Facebook, has a caption claiming that the pandemic has been "invented".

The narrator of the clip is Stefano Montanari, an Italian researcher with a degree in pharmacology, who claims the end goal is to get everyone vaccinated.

He argues that the epidemic "will continue to be totally made-up" until there is a vaccine that "will bring money and corruption into the already full pockets of some".

He concludes: "This is a sensational hoax, but a very successful one."

There is no evidence whatsoever to support his theory that the pandemic is a hoax. It is true that whichever pharmaceutical company develops a vaccine could potentially profit from the success, but the idea that this potential profit would be a motive to invent a pandemic is far-fetched.

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Mynd44, OAM4J

Bill Gate is guilty and he knows it.....



He's always into chips and who sponsored the nine senate to pass the disease bill with forced vaccination??


Who tried to condemn the Madagascar herbal?


This white folks are lame!!!


I blame out asslicking leaders..

Righteousness89:
A Carnal Mind cannot Understand these things...

Righteousness89:
A Carnal Mind cannot Understand these things...

Oga calm down

Things are going back to normal gradually yet none of your conspiracy is making sense...una no de tire?

Jay5mie:



Oga calm down

Things are going back to normal gradually yet none of your conspiracy is making sense...una no de tire?

Normal

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There is no Normality or peace in this Earth!

Except the World Leaders Subscribe to JESUS CHRIST..

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Righteousness89:


Normal

My Brother Watch Pray and Live Ready!

There is no Normality or peace in this Earth!

Except the World Leaders Subscribe to JESUS CHRIST..

Are you not tired of these your lies?

well am glad the popular prophesy book written by a woman was fulfilled. it remains where she pointed out that Corona virus will return again.. Pastor Suleiman also confirmed it with his own prophesy about the epidemic & few other pastors.

for those who think hard solid facts leads to the truth your ignorance is huge. the eyes itself while looking can be deceived. I trust wisdom more to see the truth

the writer avoided asking themselves "Whether micro chipping an entire country or world is possible ?"

i am Glad the Bible that works on revelation not fact told us about it even when it was impossible to imagine at that time. didn't Ezekiel had a revelation of an aeroplane that will happen sometime

Spiritual things are happening & our eyes while looking can still be deceived. Christ warned on that many times

this write up was written to psychologically appeal to senses . what a deceit

Christians should please be ever watchful and not sleep. we will use wisdom not only eye sight to discern the truth & expose the evil plans

even a man of reason would know that "So far as there are good & bad people in the world at various positions & classes; there will always be good agendas & evil plots even in places of power"

this is common reason & conspiracies even though carry its errors accepts that truth above but not these media groups like this that posted this.

self deceit is the worst deceit ever..keep waiting for Facts.

Brethrens listen to the voice of Holy spirit in you.
he is the reason the end has not yet come

666 and Chips are not what you think it is.

Its already in existence a long time ago.
We are all identified by numbers

You have a phone number, you have an account number, your mobile device and computers have a special number for tracking and tracing.

666 amd chips (misunderstood for injection of serums into humans) is just a SYMBOL for humans to be identified by numbers rather than names.

Look around you, if you wanna be tracked, your number is available of many platforms.

Social Media, Schools, Hospitals all have numbers or digits attached to humans.

The number game is on. The idea of vaccination, injecting are been seen literally. Nothing like that, its a decoy that you keep Fighting meanwhile the real number game is ON.

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