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2023-07-23 10:52:35 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 73FF181596F26ED23B7D5B36BC8B1D1603EDFE7BAD0F0193B3C8A89700E5D83F
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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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