Does a story claiming Bill Gates was "Caught Pumping Deadly Bird Flu Jabs Into America's Food Supply" in its headline actually describe Bill Gates doing that? No, that's not true: There is no mention of any food supply in the U.S. being injected with bird flu vaccines in the entire body of the story, which was published on a site that routinely makes up quotes and sources. Case in point: the article contained an embedded video with a title card thumbnail that showed a non-existent social media post about "stealth" vaccination falsely attributed to Bill Gates.
The story originally appeared as an article (archived here) published by The People's Voice on February 19, 2025, titled "Bill Gates Caught Pumping Deadly Bird Flu Jabs Into America's Food Supply - Media Blackout" which opened:
Today, we're exposing a chilling conspiracy unfolding right before our eyes. The USDA has destroyed billions of eggs--on the advice of none other than America's largest farmland owner, Bill Gates.
The story only mentioned "food supply" in the headline, and there were just two mentions of "bird flu":
And this is precisely why Gates is so desperate to push his bird flu mRNA vaccine onto the global population--whether they consent or not.
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First, he donated 100,000 chickens to Africa, claiming it was to help fight poverty. Then--boom!--bird flu mysteriously broke out, wiping out 3.5 million chickens in Nigeria alone.
The story offered no support or evidence for the statement that Gates was trying to push a bird flu mRNA vaccine on people without their consent. The story about the chickens dates back to 2016 (archived here), so the claim it has something to do with bird flu breaking out nine years later in 2025 is tenuous at best.
The story also linked to and embeded a video (archived here) that had a title card thumbnail that looked like this:
(Source: screenshot taken by Lead Stories on February 20, 2025 at 09:24:22 UTC)
It featured what looked like a post on X/Twitter by Bill Gates that read "We're going to stealth vaccinate the entire U.S. population by 2026."
Lead Stories searched for the phrase "We're going to stealth vaccinate the entire U.S. population by 2026." on Gates' X account and did not find any matching posts (archived here).
The People's Voice
The People's Voice is among the most prolific online publishers of fake news. Articles on the site often link to and extensively quote stories from other sites to give an appearance of legitimacy but the main claim in the headline and/or the first paragraph of each article is almost never supported by the sources that are offered. The site routinely makes up quotes from people or misrepresents scientific study results.
It originally started as YourNewsWire in 2014 and rebranded as NewsPunch in 2017. In 2023, it rebranded itself again to The People's Voice. The People's Voice/NewsPunch/YourNewsWire has published numerous fake news articles in the past, so anything that appears on the site should be taken with a large grain of salt. Its Facebook page, "The People's Voice", lost its verification checkmark, according to a 2018 report from Media Matters For America.
