“BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP STRIKES BACK — DEATH PENALTY FOR mRNA CRIMES NOW ON THE TABLE”, reads the headline of a lengthy Facebook post published on February 26, 2025.
It goes on to read: “President Trump has BANNED all mRNA shots, issued orders for MASS ARRESTS, and is preparing MILITARY TRIBUNALS for the criminals behind the pandemic. Bill Gates, Fauci, Big Pharma CEOs — their days are numbered. The DEATH PENALTY is now in play for crimes against humanity.”
The Gates Foundation has contributed to development and surveillance programmes around the world; Anthony Fauci, meanwhile, was a top health official who led the US campaign against Covid-19 and retired in 2022.
The post goes on to suggest the pandemic “was about control, power, and depopulation,” echoing recurrent conspiracy theories about depopulation through vaccines.
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Screenshot showing the false post, taken March 12, 2025
The post, shared more than 300 times, was published by a Nigeria-based account. A review of the account shows most of the content is in support of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
IPOB is a group pushing for the independence of Nigeria’s southeast region, where a bloody civil war was fought in the late 1960s.
The claim has been shared in English by several other Facebook accounts around the world (like here and here) and also in French (like here and here).
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