It is false that Bill Gates bought Coca-Cola shares to insert vaccines with mRNA in the drink – 04/19/2023 – Health

It is false that the American businessman Bill Gates bought shares of Coca-Cola to insert mRNA vaccines in the drink that bears the company’s name in order to control people’s DNA.

Recently, as verified by the Comprova Project, it was reported that he acquired shares in Heineken on the same day that the company Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB —known as Coca-Cola Femsa and traded on the Stock Exchange under the symbol KOF— sold a stake in the company. . Femsa is responsible for bottling the soft drink and Gates also holds a stake in it, but it is not new: the shares were purchased in 2007.

In addition, to the report, both Femsa and Coca-Cola guarantee that there have been no changes in the formula of the drink. The Mexican company is just one of the soda bottlers. In Brazil alone, the Coca-Cola system has six other bottling partners that, together, add up to 37 factories.

To reinforce the false theory that Bill Gates would be wanting to interfere with the DNA of those who consume the drink, the author writes that “they don’t even hide it anymore: Femsa’s propaganda (distribution company) is precisely the following: One single DNA!”.

About this, Femsa added that it uses the term “DNA KOF” in the company’s internal communication as a way of translating the values ​​and behaviors that involve employees.

“With the purpose of empowering our teams to lead growth and transformation in an environment of constant change in the industry, we define the KOF DNA as a series of fundamental beliefs and behaviors that regulate our daily actions”, details the company on its website.

An explanation of the matter was also published on the company’s Facebook page in 2021.

Finally, it is widely proven, as Comprova has shown a few times, that mRNA vaccines are not capable of altering human DNA.

False, for Comprova, is content that was invented or that has been edited to change its original meaning and deliberately disseminated to spread a falsehood.

Reach

Comprova investigates suspicious content with greater reach on social networks. On Twitter, the post was liked 2,000 times by April 14 and was later deleted. On Instagram, the contents had more than 4,000 likes by April 18. Until the same date, the post recorded 59,000 interactions on TikTok, including likes, shares and comments.

How do we check

Using Google, we searched for news published by the professional press about the possible purchase of shares in Heineken and Coca-Cola by businessman Bill Gates. We then contacted the press offices of Coca-Cola, Femsa and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The AFM (Dutch Authority for Financial Markets), regulator of the Dutch financial market, was also approached. Finally, we revisited Comprova’s checks on mRNA technology, used in vaccines against Covid-19, and looked for the authors of the posts.

Actions

There is no news that Bill Gates has purchased shares in the Coca-Cola Company, the company that owns the Coca-Cola soft drink.

In fact, it was recently reported that the entrepreneur acquired, on February 17, 2023, a minority stake in Heineken Holding NV, the controlling shareholder of the second largest brewery in the world, for around US$ 902 million.

According to Bloomberg, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist bought 3.8% of Heineken Holding, according to a document from the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets, totaling 6.65 million shares, in his individual capacity, and another 4.18 million shares through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The AFM was contacted by Comprova to confirm the information, but did not return.

The soda’s name appears in this story because Gates acquired the stake on the same day that Femsa, the bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola, launched a sale of €3.7 billion in shares linked to part of its stakes in Heineken. Shortly before, Femsa had announced plans to dispose of its stake in the brewery for strategic reasons.

According to the Seu Dinheiro investment site, in 2007, 16 years ago, the businessman bought a stake valued at US$ 392 million (R$ 2 billion at current exchange rates) in Femsa. Seven years earlier, the Mexican had sold its brewery to Heineken.

The report also asked Femsa, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Coca-Cola for information about possible sales and purchases of shares and whether Gates holds shares in the company that manufactures the soda. Coca-Cola responded by saying it is a publicly traded company in the United States and does not comment on shareholder movements. Femsa did not respond and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sent a note to the report without making reference to the purchase of shares and stating that the allegations that Bill Gates is inserting mRNA in drinks and that he is part of a “New World Order” are false .

Formula

Those responsible for the posts do not present any evidence that Coca-Cola has changed the composition of the traditional drink that bears its name. To Comprova, the company guaranteed that there was no recent change in the product’s formula. A note on the subject was published on the company’s website, adding that all ingredients used in the products are safe, approved by regulatory bodies and are listed on the packaging label.

The last record of changing the formula of the traditional drink occurred on April 23, 1985, over 35 years ago. At the time, the change was not well accepted by consumers and the original formula was resumed a few months later, on July 11, 1985.

Coca-Cola Femsa’s press office declared that the allegations made on social networks are untrue and explained that it uses the term “DNA KOF” in its internal communication as a way of translating the values ​​and behaviors that involve its employees. The expression was used in the disinformation pieces as “proof” that it is intended to alter people’s genetic information through drinking.

human DNA

It makes no sense to say that inserting vaccines with mRNA into soft drinks makes it possible to control the DNA, because not even the immunizers applied to people to fight the disease are capable of doing so.

The false claim that mRNA can alter DNA became widely spread after the approval of two vaccines against Covid-19, by Pfizer and Moderna, which use the technology. The claim has been denied multiple times over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Comprova has already explained that mRNA vaccines are developed not to interfere with human DNA and that there is no evidence that they are capable of causing genetic damage.

mRNA is a molecule that exists in the human body and that carries information to the nucleus of cells for the production of proteins. Laboratories responsible for immunizers have produced synthetic mRNAs, which contain part of the genetic information of the new coronavirus. In our body, this RNA will make us produce a protein that alerts the immune system to create antibodies.

Regarding allegations of this nature, Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) has already taken a position by informing that vaccines that use the genetic code of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in their technology are not gene therapy products because they do not use copies of human genes to disease treatments.

Bill Gates is a frequent target of conspiracy theories due to philanthropic investments in the health area, including to combat the coronavirus. Estadão Verify, for example, showed that a post edited a video of the businessman to suggest a conspiracy involving the Covid-19 vaccine and that an excerpt from another speech by him was modified to discredit the safety of immunizers.

What the person responsible for the publication says

On Twitter, the content was posted by the account @VitimasVacinas, which does not have any identification of who is responsible and does not allow the sending of messages. The tweet was later deleted. The video on Instagram was recorded by Cristiane Luz. To Comprova, she said she was based on independent journalism sites and Twitter pages, in addition to her own spiritual knowledge on the subject, ending contact afterwards.

What can we learn from this check

The posts have an air of conspiracy theory when they suggest that a world-renowned businessman is planning to control humanity. They also involve the names of two giants in the beverage industry. If these companies, or even the billionaire, were acting in bad faith against consumers, the fact would certainly be widely publicized. In this context, it is important to highlight that the professional press is a reliable source of information, therefore, a search for the subject would be enough to find news in this sense. About the functioning of technology in vaccines, there is abundant content not only in the press, but also on the websites of the agencies that regulate these products and in official government sources, which should be consulted. It is also important for the reader to be aware of far-fetched content, such as this one, and to ask himself if what is stated in the publication makes any sense. A simple question like “Is it possible to put DNA in a soda?”

why do we investigate

Comprova monitors suspicious content published on social networks and messaging apps about public policies and elections at the federal level and opens investigations for those publications that have achieved greater reach and engagement. You can also suggest checks via WhatsApp +55 11 97045-4984. Suggestions and questions related to questionable content can also be sent to Sheet via WhatsApp 11 99486-0293.

Other checks on the topic

Similar contents were verified by UOL Confere, Fato ou Fake and by Boatos.Org. In addition, Comprova has previously shown a publication to be false suggesting that Bill Gates would install nanoparticles in vaccine doses and that immunizers do not inject “alien DNA” into humans.