Preaches a global coronavirus conspiracy in Lithuania as fiction about African countries

“The President of Madagascar has made a sensational statement that the WHO has offered him a bribe of 20 million dollars to use ‘poison’ in the country as a cure for COVID-19,” the new news!

Since the day the record was released last Friday, it has been shared by 4.3 thousand. together.

The file seeks to demonstrate that the COVID-19 outbreak is a coordinated control action, and the author relies on three false or unsubstantiated statements: the World Health Organization (WHO) offered a bribe to Madagascar; Bribery in USD.

Bribery of Madagascar

The author of the post claims that the president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, has accused the WHO of offering the country 20 million. Bribery in USD. That is not true, and the information was denied in May. But initially a bit of context.

In May Rajoelina told France 24 in an interviewthat a COVID-19 drug made of hardness has been developed in your country. In response to such statements, The WHO has stated that there is no evidence that such a substance helps treat coronavirus disorders..

A few days after the exchange of comments, information appeared in the Tanzanian press of another African country, allegedly A. Rajoelina reported that the WHO had offered him 20 million. bribe dollars to poison organic “medicine”.

But the news agencies AFP journalists tried to find out if that was indeed the caseLova Ranoramoro, head of Madagascar’s presidential office, denied information in the Tanzanian media and said that Rajoelina had not spoken of any bribery.

He reached the same conclusion rappler.com and africacheck.org research teams.

Testing in Tanzania

The record goes on to say that “the goat and papaya samples were found to be positive for the virus in Tanzania.” In May, the country’s president, John Magufuli, made a real statementthat samples of automotive, goat and papaya ointments were secretly delivered to the country’s national health laboratory.

The COVID-19 tests were said to be positive and the results of experiments on hares and other fruits were inconclusive. For this reason, the head of the laboratory conducting the tests was suspended.

However snopes.com fact checker data, no evidence was provided to confirm that such an experiment was performed.

And germany correctiv.org The fact-checkers asked Karsten Becker, director of the Institute for Microbiology at Greifswald Medical University.. According to the academic, tests designed for human use should not be used to study other organisms, since the results obtained are completely meaningless.

In other words, the Tanzanian leader has not provided evidence of the tests conducted, and even if he had, he would do little to change, as it should come as no surprise that tests that are used incorrectly show absurd results.

Bribery of Nigeria

The Facebook entry goes on to say that “Bill Gates was found to have offered a $ 10 million bribe for a mandatory Nigerian coronavirus vaccination program.” This is not true either.

He wrote about this story in late June. leadstories.com fact checkers. Journalists were able to trace that similar allegations appeared on June 23. In a video posted on Viable TV on YouTube.

The recording talks about the coalitions of the united political parties in Nigeria. Coalition of United Political Parties) by Ikenga Ugochinyere. According to him, the Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Femis Gbajabiamila, accepted a bribe to speed up the passage of a law on the control of infectious diseases in the country.

Leadstories.com under that law, vaccination is not mandatory. However, no evidence was provided to substantiate such claims. At once Natural news portal Natural News began spreading the unsubstantiated story in late May..

People marking plans

The story is supplemented by a statement that Bill Gates’s plans to “fight people using the ID2020 digital ID program” have been revealed.

ID2020 or Digital Identity Alliance Digital identity alliance) is a non-profit organization, funded by more than one source. It is true that one of the organizations that funds ID2020 is GAVI, which promotes the availability of vaccines and is co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BMFG).

The goal of ID2020 is to create personal identification tools that allow people to have easily accessible information about their health data. The program focuses on poor regions because there are problems of preserving personal documents and health records.

It is difficult to understand what kind of “fighting with people” is involved. However snopes.com note of fact-checkersthat ID2020 activities among conspiracy theories are often intertwined with vaccination, leading to the conclusion that the goal is to tag people with microchips.

An entrepreneur and a philanthropist are often the subject of conspiracy theories. Lithuania is no exception. Not even once we write about various theories, Gateways and coronavirus.

15 minutes evaluation, the Facebook entry is misleading. Its authors rely on a cocktail of unverified, unproven, and already denied information.

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