Bill Gates: Facebook and YouTube ‘doing more’ to address COVID misinformation

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, talks to Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer about the spread of misinformation online about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Video Transcript

BILL GATES: You know, I think those companies are doing more now to do that. You know, this is kind of a wild phenomena, and it-- you know, we've always had some wariness a vaccine-- about vaccines, but not this idea of connecting them to a plot, you know, like microchipping people to track them or, you know, things that you-- you know, even in a fiction story, it wouldn't be all that believable. So, you know, I hope we can get the truth to be more interesting than the, you know, sort of oversimplistic explanation of what's going on with this pandemic.