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  • 2023-01-31 (xsd:date)
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  • No, Elon Musk’s Twitter Files don’t mention – or ‘expose’ – Bill Gates (en)
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  • IN SHORT : Social media posts claim Elon Musk’s Twitter Files exposed Bill Gates so hard that the Microsoft co-founder turned off comments on his tweets. But the Twitter Files, released in December 2022, don’t discuss Gates. And Gates turned off comments in July 2020. Disclaimer: Funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made up 11% of Africa Check’s income in 2020 . Elon Musk EXPOSED Bill Gates in the latest twitter files so hard that he has now turned off comments on his Twitter, reads a claim circulating on social media in South Africa and elsewhere in January 2023. Billionaire Elon Musk co-founded PayPal and established SpaceX . He’s also the chief executive of Tesla . In October 2022, Musk bought Twitter for US$44 billion. Billionaire Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . On 2 December 2022 Musk and a group of writers began releasing what's called the Twitter Files , internal documents from the company before Musk took over. The information has been posted in a series of Twitter threads. The original claim that Gates was somehow exposed in the Twitter Files was posted on Twitter on 16 January 2023 by the account Anti WEF . The account promotes various conspiracy theories about the World Economic Forum . 🚨 Elon Musk EXPOSED Bill Gates in the latest twitter files so hard that he has now turned off comments on his Twitter. pic.twitter.com/wcSljoVqS4 — Anti WEF (@ANTlWEF) January 16, 2023 But do the Twitter Files really expose Gates? And did he turn off his Twitter comments as a result? Gates not the subject of any of the Twitter Files’ eight batches The claim doesn’t say what the Twitter Files exposed about Gates. This vagueness and complete lack of detail in an accusation is often a sign of false information. The Twitter Files have so far been released in eight batches . These are the subjects of each batch: Twitter’s moderation process after a New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop The practice of shadow banning certain Twitter users Former US president Donald Trump’s suspension from Twitter Twitter’s reaction to the 6 January 2021 attack on the US capitol Twitter employees’ influence on the decision to ban Trump Twitter’s interaction with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about election disinformation Twitter's interaction with the US intelligence community about Hunter Biden’s laptop The Twitter site integrity team’s whitelisting of accounts from US Central Command, which runs influence campaigns elsewhere in the world None of the eight batches mentions Bill Gates. Gates did turn off comments on his tweets – back in July 2020. Only people Gates follows or mentions in his tweets can reply. No reason for this block has been given. The Twitter Files didn’t expose Gates. And the files were first released in December 2022. Gates turned off comments on his Twitter more than two years before, in July 2020. The claim has also been debunked by Reuters and Check Your Fact . (en)
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