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The video shared on social media has been manipulated using deepfake technology and does not show an authentic interaction between ABC News journalist Sarah Ferguson and Bill Gates.
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Mar 10, 2023 A video of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates being grilled in an interview by a journalist has gone viral. In the video, the journalist accuses Gates of stealing Microsoft software and promoting COVID-19 vaccines to make billions. She grills him with tough questions, and the interview ends abruptly after Gates appears frustrated. We check the veracity of the claim in this video.
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Reuters Fact Check
March 24, 202312:51 AM Updated 3 months ago
Fact Check-Video of Australian news interview featuring Bill Gates edited using AI
A video of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that shows him abruptly ending an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News journalist Sarah Ferguson after facing questions about Microsoft and his involvement in COVID-19 vaccine distribution was edited using artificial intelligence, experts told Reuters.
Ferguson, in the clip, is heard asking Gates: “what have you contributed to the world?” and “what exactly makes you, a computer engineer who didn’t even program his initial product himself, a valid representative of the pharmaceutical industry?”
Examples of the video shared online can be seen (here), (here) and (archive.is/FzNrx).
Reuters traced the video to a TikTok account that posted the clip on March 8 and captioned it: “How dangerous AI can be” with a face screaming in fear emoji (here).
This user told Reuters in an email that the original video came from a different TikTok account, adding “I managed to download it before it was banned. With a reverse search, I found the original interview. Then I concluded that this video was a deepfake.” The user said the post was captioned with reference to the dangers of AI, “to raise awareness of what can be done using AI.”
Bill Gates was interviewed by Ferguson on the ABC News show “7.30” on Jan. 30, 2023. However, in the original broadcast uploaded to YouTube by ABC News (here), the journalist does not ask the questions heard in the edited video.
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Among the topics discussed were Gates’ actions to combat COVID-vaccine conspiracy theories, according to the broadcast video and an ABC News recap of the interview on the network’s website (here).
The version of the clip with altered dialogue being shared was created using deepfake technology, which manipulates audio and visuals to make it appear that an individual is saying something (here).
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VERDICT
Altered. The video shared on social media has been manipulated using deepfake technology and does not show an authentic interaction between ABC News journalist Sarah Ferguson and Bill Gates.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-bill-gates-interview-idUSL1N35V1UV
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