Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder travelled to India, where his foundation works with the government on delivering AI for social good, earlier this week and was advertised as speaking at the international summit shortly after the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.
But Gates suddenly withdrew on Thursday morning, hours before he was due to address delegates, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
The Gates Foundation said in a statement: “After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remains on the AI summit’s key priorities, Mr Gates will not be delivering his keynote address…”
The move came less than 48 hours after the Gates Foundation had insisted: “Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit. He will be delivering his keynote as scheduled.”
I just had someone chastise me for jumping to conclusions, just because he was Epstein pals doesn’t mean he fucked kids or knew about it.
Are there influence agents on lemmy, like paid bot supported agents pushing bullshit like on the major social media, or was this guy for real? Hard to believe someone could be for real on that, and given the impunity, and the hands off nature of their treatment, pretending they aren’t necessarily guilty because they would slaap suit them if they didn’t, they should be called out every chance we get.
Bill Gates got STDs and asked Epstein if there was an antibiotic he could give his wife without her knowing. Typical innocent person behavior.
I love that all the money he dumped trying to greenwash his assholery was all for nothing. Looks like the lessons from Warren Buffett just back fired on to that pos also. Those 2 hung around way to much eating at mcd’s trying to pretend to just be regular people. The little guys they destroyed to be billionaires need to take them down with all the dirt they have.
Everyone fucking knew. That’s the horseshit pile of excuse that the rich want you to believe.
When exactly did Trump say Epstein “likes them on the younger side” so publically?
Epstein’s parties were known to have young girls. He used young girls as currency for rapport — just check his emails with Elon Musk. When did that happen?
Tina Brown received an invite to Epstein’s party and exclaimed, “What the hell is this, the Predators Ball?” When did that happen?
When was Epstein fired from teaching for inappropriate relations with a student?
When was Epstein convicted in relation to having sex with a minor?
This was part of the lure. The rich powerful people of the world knew Epstein was the connection they needed to surround themselves with young women, like so many imagine rich life would be like. They bought into that allure, knowing full well they’d have plausible deniability if today ever came.
Bet on it.
Edit: influence agents, that is
People like that are the entire point of the bots and paid posters. They sound convincing enough loudly enough to convince some folks there’s another option. This captures people who haven’t heard otherwise or want to believe that side because it tickles their confirmation bias or whatever. Those people continue to spread the seeded idea, and eventually a network effect takes over and makes it seem like a valid stance that came up organically.
This is spot on. And is worse than ever before.
yes, just being named in the files does not mean you participated in any of the criminal activity.
For instance members of the lab I attended at Harvard are in the files, because Someone referenced a research paper to Epstein, thus the lab and specific authors of the paper are in the Epstein database. All they did was publish an academic research paper.
However, when there are specific instances of your behavior or attendance at events featuring Sexually trafficked minors, YES you should be thought of as a co-conspirator in the crimes.
Epstein was already a convicted child rapist when Gates was being pals with him.
Maybe you are the paid bot.
Gates and Epstein had connections going back to 1992. It must be a gift to know everything without ever having to learn it though! I’m jealous.
Imagine defending these people.