Over 40% of Republicans wrongly believe conspiracy theory about Bill Gates and COVID-19 vaccines

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Fighting misinformation and conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus has almost been as hard as battling the pandemic itself. And a new survey has found that one conspiracy theory about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is taking hold.

A conspiracy theory that Gates is planning to use a future COVID-19 vaccine to implant microchips in billions of people in order to monitor their movements has gained supporters particularly among Fox News viewers and Republicans, the survey found.

The representative survey of 1,640 US adults by YouGov for Yahoo News found that half of respondent Americans who say Fox News is their primary television news source believe the conspiracy theory. It's the largest group responding this way, followed by self-described Republicans and "Voted for Donald Trump in 2016" -- 44% of both those groups said they believed the conspiracy theory was true. Twenty-six percent of respondent Republicans said it was false, and 31% said they weren't sure.

Representatives for Fox News, the Republican Party, the White House and the Trump 2020 campaign didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which the namesake founders use to fund medical research and vaccine programs around the world, also didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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[msongs]

1. gates is putting crocodiles in the bathtubs of android phone users nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Well I better keep an eye out for those then.

[onecaliberal]

3. Oh for fucks sake, of course they do.

[Hassler]

4. These MENSA morons don't seem to realize the chip isn't needed

Their phones track them very nicely.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. True that

It's rather creepy when a phone app asks you how you rate a particular place you've just been.

[Cicada]

6. Regular Fox viewers: 50%

[Demovictory9]

8. listen to Hannity: 80%

[Cicada]

11. Oh my god!

Such widespread idiocy means Trump has a good chance of being re-elected. Pretty scary.

[Demovictory9]

7. unfortunately, large percentage of public will believe ANYTHING

[Edwcraig]

9. You can fool......

all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
PS: The some of the people you can fool all of the time are Republicans.

[struggle4progress]

10. Maybe. Or maybe they're just jerk-offs busily jerking other people's chains.

[GemDigger]

12. I have been going out of my way to tell every nutty republican I know that I have been

vaccinated and microchipped. Most of the knuckleheads believe me.