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2023-07-23 08:37:36 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 69F2C835D90146F75BCD8639BD733BEA8D974092D5B50DCC365C9C04D535EBFD
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Gates did not personally hatch a plan, nor is he — or anyone — scheming to block out the sun. The claim surfaced in 2021 and has been previously debunked by multiple fact checkers. The falsehood centers on a small-scale experiment by Harvard researchers proposed called SCoPEx https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/25/facebook-posts/claim-bill-gates-scheming-block-sun-wrong/
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