Brief Outline: Viral messages on WhatsApp, Face book and other social media claiming that Bill Gates supporting animal sacrifice on Eid.

Facts Check: False

What is Viral?

“I don’t want to see any tweet hating on Muslims for slaughtering animals, about 1 million animals killed each day by KFC, McDonald’s, Burger King, etc. too feed the rich & make hella money out of it. During Eid, Muslims sacrifice them to feed the poor for Free & Y’all lose ur mind.”,

Facts Check Analysis:  According to our investigation when we searched on Twitter, we found that he has never tweeted anything related to Eid or slaughtering. It is important to note here that  Gates never gave any opinion on the religious sentiments of any particular community. We found that this tweet is been tweeted by Kurdistani’ with the Twitter handle @WolfieBabiee was the first to post such a message on Twitter. She put that tweet on August 10, 2019.

About The Author

Ashwin Chandra is an Indian fact-checker and news writer, writing news for Ayupp since 2014.

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