Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’, in call for regulation

“There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,” Gates added, echoing other recent similar warnings by a wide array of tech and political figures…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/bill-gates-artificial-intelligence-kristen-welker

 

Bill Gates testifies about Epstein manipulation

The Microsoft founder and philanthropist also denied being complicit in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/10/congress/bill-gates-testimony-00956084

Bill Gates says his Foundation will close in 2045 and decries Musk for USAID cuts | Bill Gates | The Guardian

"I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," Gates said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/bill-gates-foundation-wealth-musk-doge 

Exclusive: Bill Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding | Reuters

Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programs worldwide, from childhood vaccination to HIV treatment, and warning that his foundation cannot step in to fill gaps, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters…

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gates-warns-white-house-he-cant-fill-shortfalls-us-global-health-funding-2025-03-18/ 

 

Bill Gates is glad he didn't grow up with smartphones, social media

"When I felt restless or bored — or got in trouble for misbehaving — I would disappear into my room and lose myself in books or ideas, often for hours without interruption," Gates wrote. "This ability to turn idle time into deep thinking and learning became a fundamental part of who I am." 

He added: "It was also crucial to my success later on."…

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/bill-gates-is-glad-he-didnt-grow-up-with-smartphones-social-media.html

No, philanthropist Bill Gates didn’t say death panels ‘will soon be required’ - PolitiFact

We rate claims that Gates made such a statement at the recent G20 summit Pants on Fire!..

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/21/viral-image/no-philanthropist-bill-gates-didnt-say-death-panel/

‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic | Bill Gates | The Guardian

"I wrote a memo when I put the extra $20bn into the foundation, saying 'I'm not doing this because the near term looks super-rosy', and that's true, I'm doing it because these are important issues and in the long run I still am an optimist, that the war will end, the innovation pipeline and the kind of progress we saw until the pandemic in reducing malnutrition, reducing child death and getting digital bank accounts for women, will return. We were making progress and we can again.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/the-strain-is-the-worst-of-my-lifetime-how-bill-gates-is-staying-optimistic

The World Really Is Getting Better - The Atlantic

Since 1990, poverty and hunger have declined dramatically while life spans have increased on every continent. According to the report, the share of global smokers has declined by about 20 percent; children are roughly 30 percent less likely to be malnourished or stunted; rates of tuberculosis have similarly declined by about one-third; maternal deaths per live births have declined by 40 percent; the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases such as dengue and leprosy has declined by roughly 70 percent; and the share of the global population with access to toilets and safe plumbing has increased by 100 percent. The quality of data collection varies by category and country. But overall, it is hard to argue that human progress is some sort of sales pitch from the pathologically optimistic. Progress is simply a fact...

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

PolitiFact | Bill Gates said we need vaccines that halt transmission. He didn’t say the COVID-19 shots don’t work

In a recent interview, Gates said that current vaccines "slightly reduce transmission" and he advocated for funds to be allocated so that researchers can develop new vaccines in the future that halt transmission and offer disease protection at the same time…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/17/tweets/bill-gates-said-we-need-vaccines-halt-transmission/

No, Bill Gates didn’t call for the ‘withdrawal of all COVID-19 vaccines’ - PolitiFact

The claim comes from an article that was prominently labeled as "satire" after misinformation spread about the piece…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/07/blog-posting/no-bill-gates-didnt-call-withdrawal-all-covid-19-v/

Fact check: Hunter Biden wasn't arrested by military at Dulles airport

… USA TODAY has debunked claims that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was taken into custody on child sex trafficking charges, that Navy SEALs arrested former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that U.S. Special Forces arrested Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Real Raw News has also falsely claimed Clinton was hanged at Guantanamo Bay and Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was put under house arrest…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/02/fact-check-hunter-biden-wasnt-arrested-military-dulles-airport/5701735001/

Clay Clark Says the COVID-19 Vaccine Is a Plot by Bill Gates to Trick People into Taking the Mark of the Beast on Vimeo

…  says that the COVID-19 vaccine is a plot by Bill Gates to trick people into accepting the Mark of the Beast.
https://vimeo.com/569398094

Video Targets Gates With Old Clip, Misleading Edit - FactCheck.org

...A conspiratorial video circulating on Facebook misleadingly edits Gates' talk to suggest his "wish" was to depopulate the planet through vaccines...

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-video-targets-gates-with-old-clip-misleading-edit/

Bill Gates: It's 'outrageous' Americans can't get coronavirus test results in 24 hours

Microsoft co-founder and global health philanthropist Bill Gates criticized the current state of the United States’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, including slow turnaround times for tests. Gates told “Fox News Sunday” that the access to fast testing is still inadequate more than six months into the pandemic and that the U.S. was set up for a rough fall of virus cases. “Even today, people don’t get their results in 24 hours. It’s outrageous that we still have that,” Gates said....
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/20/bill-gates-its-outrageous-americans-cant-get-coronavirus-test-results-in-24-hours.html

Disgraced Republican Financier Accused of Secretly Lobbying for China – Mother Jones

On May 25, 2017, Elliott Broidy texted Rick Gates with a message for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Broidy, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, said that China would be willing to increase its cooperation with US law enforcement if the Justice Department deported Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese dissident living in New York. “Mine is legitimate back channel,” Broidy wrote to Gates, a former top Trump campaign aide who Broidy had hired as a consultant. Broidy did not mention that he was in the process of receiving millions of dollars from a shady Malaysian businessman who had sought his help convincing the US government to extradite Guo. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/elliott-broidy-rick-gates-china-malaysia/

Alex Jones and DeAnna Lorraine Say Michelle Obama Is a Man and Bill Gates is an Alien - RWW News

Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this clip, DeAnna Lorraine and Alex Jones allege that Michelle Obama is really a man and Bill Gates is actually a woman ... or an alien. https://youtu.be/hWgwNQey2MI

Trump’s Ex-Wife Marla Maples and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Push Wild Bill Gates Coronavirus Conspiracy

Thursday afternoon, Marla Maples, the television personality best known as Donald Trump’s second wife, shared an Instagram photo from notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates cracking up like a cartoon villain. “We get rid of cash and coins,” the overlaid text reads. “We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ex-wife-marla-maples-and-robert-f-kennedy-jr-push-wild-bill-gates-coronavirus-conspiracy

Roger Stone Told Trump WikiLeaks Was Releasing Clinton Documents

Newly unredacted portions of the Mueller report show that Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen told investigators Stone had promised the campaign damaging revelations by WikiLeaks. The information was released following a lawsuit by BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/roger-stone-warned-trump-wikileaks-clinton-dump

Bill Gates says he warned Trump about pandemic threat in 2016 - The Hill

The Wall Street Journal reports Bill Gates warned President-elect Trump in December 2016 about the threat of infectious diseases.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/natural-disasters/497193-bill-gates-says-he-warned-trump-about-pandemic

Bill Gates Coronavirus False Misinformation Vaccine Microchips

In less than a month, the baseless claim went from an obscure biohacking blog to the New York Post and RT.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/conspiracy-theorists-are-using-a-bill-gates-reddit-ama-to