Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has placed Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates at the center of a coronavirus-related globalist depopulation plot that Jones has suggested could be staved off if Gates is executed.
Gates is one of the most prominent public figures targeted by right-wing conspiracy theorists throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic. Over the last several decades, Gates has had major involvement in public health efforts, notably in the field of vaccinations. He has also been one of the more prominent voices warning about the possibility of a major global pandemic. More recently, Gates has pledged significant funding to the effort to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
Jones, a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement, has seized on Gates’ efforts in order to push a conspiratorial message.
Alex Jones’ overarching Bill Gates conspiracy theory
Jones’ overarching conspiracy theory about Gates has many threads, but this is the broad contour: Gates, acting as the public face of a plot by globalist elites to depopulate the earth, created and released the novel coronavirus, spurring efforts to create a vaccine that will then be used by globalists to sterilize or kill the most of the earth’s population.
Jones began targeting Gates with coronavirus-related conspiracy theories as early January, when there were few reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. In a video posted January 27 to Infowars’ streaming platform Banned.video, Jones called Gates “the chief science officer of the private corporate world government” who was helping globalists “carry out and execute this covert sterilization depopulation plan.” Jones based his claims on Gates' participation in “The Next Pandemic,” a November 2019 episode of the Netflix series Explained, which Jones claimed showed that he and his wife, Melinda Gates, are “trying to terrify you into accepting forced inoculation in the name of protecting your health, when in truth, vaccines have been proven to lower immunity in most cases, to be filled with cancer viruses and other pathogens, and to be a scourge from the technocrats, from the eugenicists in the last 60 to 70 years.”
Jones has subsequently built on his Gates conspiracy theory. Here are some of his specific claims from recent weeks:
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April 9: Jones claimed that the development of an invisible tattoo to track childhood vaccinations, which received funding from Gates’ foundation, has the actual goal of allowing globalists to “track everything you do” as part of a “depopulation cult.”
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April 21: Claiming that the novel coronavirus “is a manufactured virus,” Jones said, “It’s going to chew your testicles off, I mean, that’s what Bill Gates wants to do, he wants to reduce your fertility.” Jones added that, “They’re coming for your fertility, they’re coming for your balls.” Later during his broadcast, Jones said, “You know who made that virus and who cooked it up? Bill Gates, baby. Leads right back to that smiley piece of garbage.” Jones also claimed that Bill and Melinda Gates “patented” the novel coronavirus in order to insert microchips or other objects into every person on earth so that they can be bought and sold by globalists.
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April 24: Jones claimed that Gates is “murdering me and my family, he’s killing me, he’s killing my children and he thinks it’s funny,” adding, “If I’ve got to die so that he can’t go on killing everybody, that’s fine. And I want him to know that.” Jones went on to claim that Gates is “in charge of the planet” and that he is creating vaccines that are “reprogramming systems for your whole damn body.”
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April 27: Jones described the historical background of the conspiracy he alleges Gates is involved in, saying, “All the big old money is behind Gates, he’s the robber barons, the Nazis, all these dead people put everything they had into this little piece of crap.” Jones went on to describe Gates as the “placeholder” for the arrival of the Antichrist, calling him “Satan’s benchwarmer.”
At its video platform banned.video, Infowars has posted numerous videos from Jones and other Infowars personalities conspiratorially attacking Gates. Representative examples include:
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“THE NAZI ORIGINS OF A BILL GATES-BACKED SHUTDOWN - FULL SHOW 4/27/2020”
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“Bill Gates Mastermind Behind Real Supervillain Death Cult”
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“World Shocked by Bill Gates' Global Collapse Blueprint”
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“Sterilization, Paralysis, Autoimmune: The Crimes of Bill Gates”
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“Bill Gates & Anthony Fauci Knew About Coronavirus For Years And Prepared To Make Themselves Rich And Powerful”
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“SHOCK VIDEO! Bill Gates Admits To Depopulation Plan Amid Coronavirus Outbreak”
Jones uses violent rhetoric when talking about Gates and other “globalists”
Jones has woven in violent rhetoric to his coronavirus conspiracy theories about Gates and others. During his April 13 broadcast, Jones said, “If we’re this selfish of a society, then fine, just burn it all down. But I want Bill Gates and others to walk to the plank first.”
He went on to ask, “What do you think Bill Gates does?” before suggesting that “collaborators” in the coronavirus outbreak should be rounded up and killed in the same way, Jones claimed, that U.S. Marines rounded up 10-15,000 Nazi collaborators in 1941 and extrajudicially killed them: