Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’ youngest daughter Phoebe Gates has revealed how conspiracy theories about her father have affected her. In an interview on Netflix ’s latest documentary series on Bill Gates, Phoebe Gates said that conspiracy theories surrounding her father have negatively impacted her relationships. Several such conspiracy theories have linked Gates to the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the popular theories which hasn’t been proven yet claimed that the pandemic was a cover to allow the Microsoft co-founder to put microchips in vaccines to track people. Phoebe Gates, who is a social activist and co-founder of the digital fashion platform Phia, noted that the unfounded claims linking her father to the Covid-19 pandemic and the implantation of microchips in vaccines have had a damaging effect on her life.
What she said about these conspiracy theories
In a recently added Netflix documentary named “What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates,” Gates’ asked his 22-year-old daughter if she had ever come across “crazy misinformation” about him.
Responding to her father, Phoebe Gates said: “All the time. I've even had friends cut me off because of these vaccine rumours. But I’m a public health student at Stamford and I think there’s just so much nuance on how do you communicate accurate public health information or scientific data.”
Phoebe Gates ‘explains’ social media to Bill Gates
Gates continued that he needs to learn more as he “naively” still believes that “digital communication can be a force to bring us together to have a reasonable debate.”
While explaining to her father the nuances of social media, Phoebe Gates highlighted: “I think one thing that you don’t understand about online is it’s not logic and fact that win out. People want to escape, They want to laugh. They want an engaging video. They want to be taken away from boring reality. The most popular video of you online is you trying to do the dab or you jumping over the chair.”
Bill Gates described these rumours about him getting rich from making vaccines as "madness," and wanted to know who promotes them.
His daughter answered: "I think it's fear. Everyone was stuck at home during a pandemic. We're all scared for our lives. No one really knows what to trust or what to believe. That’s what our society does.”
“Yeah, the pandemic was definitely, social media at its worst, oversimplifying things. It was so scary to me. I think of democracy as a debate over a set of issues as opposed to this complete separation of us and them,” the tech billionaire added.
What she said about these conspiracy theories
In a recently added Netflix documentary named “What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates,” Gates’ asked his 22-year-old daughter if she had ever come across “crazy misinformation” about him.
Responding to her father, Phoebe Gates said: “All the time. I've even had friends cut me off because of these vaccine rumours. But I’m a public health student at Stamford and I think there’s just so much nuance on how do you communicate accurate public health information or scientific data.”
Phoebe Gates ‘explains’ social media to Bill Gates
Gates continued that he needs to learn more as he “naively” still believes that “digital communication can be a force to bring us together to have a reasonable debate.”
While explaining to her father the nuances of social media, Phoebe Gates highlighted: “I think one thing that you don’t understand about online is it’s not logic and fact that win out. People want to escape, They want to laugh. They want an engaging video. They want to be taken away from boring reality. The most popular video of you online is you trying to do the dab or you jumping over the chair.”
Bill Gates described these rumours about him getting rich from making vaccines as "madness," and wanted to know who promotes them.
His daughter answered: "I think it's fear. Everyone was stuck at home during a pandemic. We're all scared for our lives. No one really knows what to trust or what to believe. That’s what our society does.”
“Yeah, the pandemic was definitely, social media at its worst, oversimplifying things. It was so scary to me. I think of democracy as a debate over a set of issues as opposed to this complete separation of us and them,” the tech billionaire added.
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