Bill Gates arrested in the Philippines? This is what posts that have gone viral on TikTok claim. “A warrant of arrest [visant] Bill Gates released in the Philippines for ‘premeditated murder’ related to vaccine deployment,” the article headlines. A mention “verified” has been integrated into the article giving the impression of reliable information. However, the news does not appear to have been published elsewhere. Where does it come from and is it so reliable? 20 minutes pondered the question.
FAKE OFF
The article was published on March 2 by News Punch. A site that is mysteriously not referenced on the Google search engine, but visible on Bing for example. According to the Conspiracy Watch website, “NewsPunch.com is the new name of YourNewsWire.com, a fake news site run by Briton Sean Adl-Tabatabai”.
On its description, News Punch describes itself as “an American news publication committed to covering headlines that mainstream media avoids.” But the site is known to be fond of many conspiracy theories, including the Pizzagate affair which imagined a pedophilia network around the former campaign manager of Hillary Clinton.
Guilty of hundreds of thousands of deaths
What does the article say? According to the site, an investigation into the deployment of the vaccination would have been opened by a court in the Philippines. The judge reportedly said Bill Gates was wanted in the face of the hundreds of thousands of deaths he allegedly caused due to the Covid-19 vaccine. “A number which cannot be estimated at present and which will certainly increase exponentially over time”, specifies the author.
The article adds that the billionaire had been banned from entering the country since 2016. a minimum prison term of 20 years and a day,” the paper states.
No “hate crimes court”
However, the “Heinous Crimes Court in Manila” does not currently exist in the Philippines. On the official website of the Council of Judges in Asiathe different courts in the Philippines are listed: the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Sandiganbayan [une cour d’appel chargée des affaires pénales et civiles], the first and second tier courts and the Sharia court. But the list makes no mention of “hate crimes”.
In addition, no information on the billionaire’s arrest has been published in local media. Contacted by 20 minutesthe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation confirms that the claim is false.