Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Bill Gates, ID2020 & Vaccine Microchips

• Spiro Skouras
  Today we are going to fact check the fact checkers regarding many online reports that bill gates wants to implant microchips in people using vaccines to fight the coronavirus. In this report we are going to focus on two articles that were published which claim to be the arbiters of truth, in these confusing times. So, Is the claim that Bill Gates wants to inject you with a vaccine that contains a microchip to track who has and has not been vaccinated true? Watch the report below and decide for yourself!
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  How a tech NGO got sucked into a COVID-19 conspiracy theory https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/ne…
  False claim: Bill Gates planning to use microchip implants to fight coronavirus https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fa…
  Reuters just got $10 billion to build a sustainable news business. How should it spend it? https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/1712648…
  Thomson Reuters closes deal with Blackstone https://www.reuters.com/article/us-th…
  Storing medical information below the skin’s surface http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vacc…
  Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record https://bioengineering.rice.edu/news/…
  Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media…
  Kiva and Gravity.Earth granted first ID2020 certifications for empowering users of digital ID technology https://www.biometricupdate.com/20200…
  Only a Covid-19 vaccine will allow return to ‘normalcy’: UN chief https://www.straitstimes.com/world/un…
  US firm combines nanotechnology, blockchain for COVID-19 immunity passports https://www.ledgerinsights.com/nanote…
  ID2020 and partners launch program to provide digital ID with vaccines https://www.biometricupdate.com/20190…
  60 strong Self Sovereign Identity group targets COVID-19 immunity passports, credentials https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sovere…
  COVID Credentials Initiative https://www.covidcreds.com/#About
  Blockchain digital identity firm Bloom launches credit score reporting with TransUnion https://www.ledgerinsights.com/blockc…
  Welcome the City of Austin to the ID2020 Alliance! https://medium.com/id2020/welcome-the…
  ID2020 Alliance Unveils Digital ID Program https://www.pymnts.com/news/biometric…
  ID2020 The Need for Good Digital ID is Universal https://id2020.org/digital-identity
  BIS Papers No 106 The design of digital financial infrastructure: lessons from India https://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap…
  HARNESSING THE DIGITALIZATION OF FINANCE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS https://digitalfinancingtaskforce.org…
  Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/p…
  UN SDG Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions https://www.un.org/development/desa/d…
  New ID2020 Project to Build Biometric ID Program Around Infant Immunization https://findbiometrics.com/new-id2020…
  Bloomberg / MyPass /Austin Blockchain ID https://littlesis.org/maps/4968-bloom…
  GAVI The Vaccine Alliance https://www.gavi.org

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