Bill Gates revealed he flags Covid misinformation to technology firms, but believes the traditional media is helping magnify conspiracy theories about him.
Bill Gates has revealed that he flags Covid misinformation to technology firms, but says he believes the traditional media is helping magnify conspiracy theories about his involvement in the global vaccine rollout.founder suggested that artificial intelligence and the massive technological leaps that have been made in recent years have had the unintended consequence of increasing the ability for misinformation to be convincingly created and spread.
In a 2015 Ted talk, in the wake of the Ebola epidemic, Gates warned that the most likely emergency to hit the human race would be a deadly virus. He urged for resources to be diverted into planning for such a scenario and vaccine research. His prescience came to the fore again when the coronavirus pandemic hit, and conspiracy theories circulated on social media thatBill Gates attends a semifinals singles match at the 2023 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2023, in Melbourne, Australia. While in Australia, he revealed he flags Covid misinformation to technology firms.. It goes without saying that none of these conspiracy theories has been proven.
Many of the theories were propagated through social media, raising calls for technology firms to clamp down on misinformation—however, some of this censorship has prompted criticism byAn October 2022 study in the Misinformation Review by the Harvard Kennedy School of comments on YouTube videos featuring Gates found they were"heavily dominated by conspiratorial statements" linked to Covid.
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