"Bill Gates wants you to drink his maggot milk," says a July 2, 2024 X post shared thousands of times -- the latest in a series of false claims about the Microsoft co-founder, whose foundation focuses on health and sustainability.
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Screenshot of a Slay News article taken July 12, 2024
The claim stems from a Slay News article and an InfoWars segment by Alex Jones, outlets AFP has previously fact-checked for sharing misinformation. The narrative has also circulated in Spanish and German.
In his segment, Jones incorporates ads for a product called "EntoMilk" to illustrate his claim.
Using a Google keyword search, AFP found it was manufactured by the now-defunct Gourmet Grubb, a South African company that specialized in insect-based products.
An archived page for EntoMilk says it was a dairy alternative made from a type of fly. The page mentions Gates but does not say the billionaire invested in the project.
"Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Arielle Zuckerberg have all invested in insect-based startups in the recent past and numerous edible insect species have been popularised as potential Superfoods," the page read in December 2020, according to the Wayback Machine.
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