Conspiracy post ties Moderna with Fauci, Gates, Epstein and Soros. Fact Check

A viral post on social media claims to tie the biotechnology company Moderna to an array of conspiracies involving Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, George Soros and Jeffrey Epstein. The post claims to be the “rabbit hole that connects all rabbit holes”.

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An example of the post can be seen below.

Just been sent this. Well worth a read.
“Ready for the rabbit hole that connects all rabbit holes?
CHECK THIS OUT:
As many of you heard Moderna is in the 3rd and final stage of their vaccine development. Here’s something many of you don’t know, guess who the first CEO of Moderna was? A Cornell graduate by the name of Anthony Fauci, who was a roommate with none other than Bill Gates. Are you paying attention? It was at Cornell that Bill Gates designed the RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and patented it under US2006257852. Are you awake yet? Now let’s really go down the rabbit hole. Moderna was a pharmaceutical company that started in Germany under the name IG Farben. IG Farben is infamous for its mass production of Zyklon-B, the primary gas used to kill millions during the Holocaust. After Germany fell, IG Farben was dissolved and its assets sold off by a Nazi turned American by the name of, you guessed it, George Soros. Soros rebranded the company as Moderna. And who was the primary stockholder of Moderna until his death? Jeffrey Epstein. His role in Moderna is where he made his fortune and established his connections. Let that sink in.
Wake up, people! You are being conditioned and controlled. Please copy and paste this, I did!”

Reading between the lines and taking into account how easily “debunkable” all of the claims are (all interspersed with classic conspiracy themed lines such as “as you awake yet?”) we are inclined to believe that the above message is intended as somewhat of a spoof conspiracy post to mock the conspiracy themed drivel we frequently encounter online.

But this being the Internet – an environment with no obvious ceiling on irony – the message is being circulated as genuine by many online, as well as being circulated by those who understand the post’s satirical nature.

Debunking the post isn’t hard, since most of the facts are so objectively false.

Firstly, Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates were not roommates as Cornell. Gates never even went to Cornell. He attended Harvard University between 1973 and 1975 before dropping out to develop Microsoft with his business partner Paul Allen. Even if Gates has attended Cornell, he wouldn’t have been there at the same time as Fauci, who is 15 years his senior and graduated Cornell when Gates was only eleven.

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Next; Since Gates didn’t attend Cornell, it’s also safe to say he never developed RFID, nor did he patent it. The first device considered to fall under the label RFID pre-dates Bill Gates, after being developed in the 1940s. The patent number quoted in the message related to a chemical formulation involved in treating the 2003 SARS virus, and nothing to do with RFID.

Next; We could find no meaningful link between IG Farben and Moderna (the company that is among those trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.) The latter was founded in 2010, while IG Farben was dissolved into smaller companies a few years after the Second World War finished. Again there is no meaningful link between IG Farben and George Soros, who was only fourteen when Germany officially surrendered in 1945. Soros, incidentally, isn’t a “Nazi turned American”.

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And finally, no conspiracy hogwash would be complete without at least one mention of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, and once again the Epstein’s link to an entirely fictitious narrative is also entirely fictitious. There is no known link between Epstein and Moderna, and he was not the primary stockholder of the company.

The entire message is verifiability false and appears to make no effort to disguise that. It is a message that appears designed to simultaneously spoof typical conspiracy themed messages while also demonstrating the alarming fact that many social media users will simply share anything if it fits a particular narrative.

We rank it false.