False News of Bill Gates’ Arrest Circulated

Misinformation was circulated on social networks that the American FBI has arrested Bill Gates on charges of biological terrorism. The false announcement was supplemented by an article describing the operation to detain Gates, with information that the FBI arrested him thanks to a report by Australian protesters against the 5G network. But Croatian fact-checking website Faktograf said that the ‘news’ actually came from an Australian satirical website called The Betoota Advocate. A photo of Bill Gates in handcuffs, published in the same Facebook post, is a photomontage that was also taken from a satirical article.