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The KCRR 97.7 article was published on March 11. The Newsbreak and KCRR 97.7 articles were headlined 'Bill Gates Arrested After Knife Incident in Nebraska.' The tweets linked to an article from the aggregator app News Break, which cited KCRR 97.7, a radio station serving Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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One user wrote: 'Fend off a knife attack or reinstall Windows ME?,' making reference to the operating system released in 2000, also known as Windows Millennium Edition. The story was also shared on the news message board on March 9, with the satirical headline: 'Crazy Bill Gates arrested with knife and menacing to microchip helpful bystanders,' referring to an online conspiracy theory that baselessly suggests Gates is behind a plot to implant microchips via the COVID vaccines.Ī handful of Fark users jokingly linked the Microsoft co-founder to the arrest. The article was headlined: 'Bill Gates Arrested After Knife Incident in Nebraska.' It started appearing on Twitter on March 12, with the most recent share being Monday, March 22.

This week, Twitter users shared a news story stating a person named Bill Gates was detained by police regarding a 'knife incident.' The philanthropist is no stranger to unfounded conspiracy theories-most recently that he was funding efforts to 'block the sun' from reaching Earth to reduce climate change and that he had once received computer lessons as a child from the singer Shakira. Bill has three children.Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was the focus of speculation online this week after the headline of a news story appeared to suggest he had been arrested in Nebraska. Gates Sr., was an attorney and civic leader who served as a co-chair of the foundation from 2000 to 2020 His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chair of United Way International. In 2010, Bill, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the world’s wealthiest families and individuals to publicly commit more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations during their lifetime or in their will.īill grew up in Seattle with two sisters. He is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, which works to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he pursues his work in climate change and clean energy innovation, Alzheimer’s research and other healthcare issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology. In 2008, Bill transitioned to focus full-time on the foundation’s work.

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As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world.īill co-founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975 with Paul Allen and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services.

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