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“Bill Gates is funding or supporting solar geoengineering experiments that are intended to influence or control rainfall.”
Bill Gates did fund solar geoengineering research, including Harvard's SCoPEx project and earlier cloud-whitening concepts. This is well-documented by credible outlets. However, these experiments were designed to study solar radiation management for global cooling and model refinement — not to control rainfall. Altered precipitation patterns are a recognized potential side effect, not the stated goal. SCoPEx was canceled in March 2024. The claim conflates a foreseeable risk with deliberate intent, making it a partial truth wrapped in a distorting frame.
“Bill Gates personally donated $50 million to Terrana Biosciences to support the development of RNA-modified crops.”
This claim is false. The $50 million invested in Terrana Biosciences came from Flagship Pioneering, a biotech venture firm — not from Bill Gates personally or the Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation's own grants database shows no funding to Terrana. Snopes investigated this exact rumor and found no evidence of a Gates connection, and Flagship Pioneering's spokesperson explicitly denied it. The claim originated from unsourced social media posts that misattributed the funding source.