More than 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates will use COVID-19 vaccine to implant tracking chips, survey says

Combat misinformation and conspiracy theories about the novel Corona virus was almost as difficult as the fight against the pandemic itself. And a new poll has shown that a conspiracy theory about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is taking effect.

A conspiracy theory that Gates plans for a future Covid-19 vaccination The implantation of microchips in billions of people to monitor their movements has been particularly popular with Fox News viewers and Republicans. the survey found.

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YouGov’s representative survey of 1,640 adults in the United States for Yahoo News found that half of the Americans surveyed identified Fox News as their primary television news source believe in conspiracy theory. It is the largest group reacting this way, followed by self-described Republicans and “Voted for Donald Trump in 2016” – 44% of these two groups said they believed the conspiracy theory to be true. 26 percent of Republicans surveyed said it was wrong and 31 percent said they were unsure.

Representatives from Fox News, the Republican Party, the White House, and the Trump 2020 campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comments. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which the namesake establishes Use to fund medical research and Vaccination programs around the world, also did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.

The survey results underscore the level at which conspiracy theories have overtaken public awareness of the coronavirus. The virus, This has infected over 1.6 million people in the United States and killing nearly 100,000 Americans has changed daily life since it was first discovered in December last year. Governments around the world ordered the citizens to isolate themselves and on-site protection to slow the spread of the virus and Reduction of the burden on hospitals and morgues.

As people adapt to these efforts, they have also begun to read and spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Such theories address all of the political ambitions of the people involved in responding to whether the corona virus is as deadly as governments and Health authorities report how and where the virus originated (experts say it came from wild animals). So many people believed wrong 5G wireless played a role in the spread of coronavirus that they destroyed nearly 80 cell towers in the UK about that.

Facebook, Twitter and Youtube everyone said they are Responses to conspiracy postsAdd links to more information and in some cases Pull down content that companies believe that this could lead to people unwittingly harming themselves.

Gates has become a center of attention among conspiracy theorists, partly because of his high profile efforts to vaccinate people around the world and his recent media appearances in recent months. He also criticized the government’s response to the crisis, as in an editorial published in the Washington Post in March.

“No question, the US missed the opportunity to be one step ahead of the novel corona virus,” he wrote a column published on March 31. “The decisions we and our leaders are making now will have a huge impact on how quickly the number of cases falls, how long the economy remains closed, and how many Americans have to bury a loved one because of COVID-19.”

An analysis by the New York Times and media watcher Zignal Labs in April found misinformation about gates most common of all coronavirus lies.

However, the May survey by Yahoo and YouGov did not reveal that all of them believed these conspiracy theories. 45 percent of the independent, 52 percent of the Democrats and 63 percent of the people who said they voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 do not believe in the conspiracy theory about gates and vaccines.

The same survey also found that only half of Americans now say they get vaccinations “when a coronavirus vaccine becomes available.” 23 percent of people say they don’t and 27 percent say they are unsure.