No, Bill Gates didn’t cause July 19 worldwide IT outage
Is Bill Gates to blame for the July 19 faulty software update that led to worldwide disruption of services? Viral social media posts claim so.
“Bill Gates woke up & thought to himself: ‘How can I screw the entire World over today’
And he did,” a July 19 X post said.
Another X post sought to link the outage to both Gates and the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump: “Was the Bill Gates sponsored IT outage supposed to coincide with their attempt to force the opposition into a civil war, or was it because it didn’t succeed.”
Airports, hospitals and news outlets were among those affected by the global outage.
But just like the software update, these claims linking Gates to the IT outage are faulty.
CrowdStrike, a Texas-based cybersecurity company, claimed responsibility for the outage.
We found no evidence of a relationship between Gates and CrowdStrike. He is not listed among the company’s board of directors or executive leadership team. Although Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975, he relinquished operational control of the company, stepping down as CEO in January 2000 and resigning from Microsoft’s board of directors in March 2020.
We rate the claim Bill Gates is responsible for the July 19 global tech outage False.
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