“Center for Global Human Population Reduction” on Gates Foundation HQ? Fact Check

A photo spreading through social media appears to show the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with the tagline “center for global human population reduction” adorned on one of the outside walls.

FALSE

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Many examples of the message are attached to the false assertion that social media companies are actively taking down the photo.

The photo has been digitally manipulated.

Bill Gates has become a frequent target for various conspiracy theorists because of his work promoting and developing vaccinations. Vaccines are themselves a popular target for conspiracies theorists who claim that they are used to control or track the world population, or that they cause autism. Conspiracies against Gates in particular have surged since the COVID-19 pandemic and Gate’s promotion of a vaccine.

Conspiracy theories often accuse the co-founder of Microsoft of attempting to reduce the global population by killing off considerable swathes of it with vaccinations designed for that very purpose. Such theories stem from the fact that one of the objectives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and something that Bill Gates himself has discussed extensively, is controlling the size of the ever expanding world population.

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However, despite claims that Gates is attempting to achieve that by covertly killing off people with vaccinations, it is actually things like societal changes, birth control and reducing childhood mortality rates in developing countries (based on research that suggests parents with children more likely to live are likely to have fewer children) that are, or have been, used to achieve that objective.

But that hasn’t stopped conspiracies to the contrary from spreading, and no doubt the motivation behind this fake image.

Fortunately in this case, debunking the video isn’t particular difficult, since the real image is freely available online (and below.)

And as it clear to see, the line about population reduction has been digitally added to the photo. There are numerous other photos available on the Internet that also show the same location, and that the added line about population reduction doesn’t actually exist.

As such, we rank this claim false.