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2023-07-22 21:08:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 8B4B2C3C34BF8BD273F792CFE56AB7DBD0C933207E3B500C81BFA10FD76E7887
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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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