Bill Gates has not purchased Telegram

An Instagram post includes a screengrab of what appears to be a report from US TV network Fox News, claiming Bill Gates had bought the messaging app Telegram.

The text above the screengrab states: “Bill Gates has just purchased the Telegram app in order to retain control of what information people can share, think and research.” It includes a broken link to a YouTube video.

A caption below the image of a news reader states “600 MILLION DOLLARS DEAL BILL GATES BUYS TELEGRAM”. 

Mr Gates has not bought Telegram. We have contacted both Telegram and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to confirm this, but both parties have previously confirmed to fact checkers at Reuters and AFP that the Gates’ have no commercial interest or ownership of Telegram.

As those reports also state, Fox News has never reported such a story and the photo appears to be digitally manipulated. Fact checkers at AFP did a reverse image search of the image in the post, tracing it back to a 2020 Fox news report on an unrelated topic.

Pavel Durov, the founder and chief executive of Telegram, has previously insisted Telegram would not be sold.

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