Billionaire Bill Gates believes that the Covid-19 disease spread at breakneck speed is caused by Facebook

At TED Talk 2015, billionaire Bill Gates once said that the next global disaster will not be a war, but rather a virus capable of spreading fast and wide. The reason Bill Gates makes such a prediction is because countries have invested money and time in deterring nuclear hazards, but have invested very little in an epidemic prevention system.

Recently, billionaire Bill Gates attended the Fast Company Impact Council conference and came up with some strategies to help prevent the Covid-19 epidemic. He attributed part of the reason for the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic at a dizzying rate in the United States due to the social network Facebook.

“Can social media companies be more helpful in disease prevention? Sadly, digital tools are just abetting the propagation of ideas that I think is crazy, ” Bill Gates said at the conference.

One of those crazy ideas was that many people believed that Bill Gates knew about the Covid-19 epidemic in advance and was responsible for the spread of the disease. There is even a conspiracy theory on Facebook, claiming that billionaire Bill Gates took advantage of the Covid-19 epidemic to be able to track people around the globe.

The spread of misinformation on social media has made disease control more difficult. Typically, a lot of people believe in information that wearing a mask is not working and social spacing is not necessary.

Bill Gates said: “The refusal to wear a mask is difficult to understand, because it is not uncomfortable to that extent. It is also not expensive. But many people think that wearing a mask is a sign of a loss of freedom or something related to human rights, while not wearing a mask will increase the risk of infecting others. ”

The social network Facebook has helped spread this misinformation, rather than sharing accurate and useful information in the prevention of disease. This is why the Covid-19 epidemic spread at a rapid rate in the United States.

Reference: BGR