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No, Bill Gates didn’t cause July 19 worldwide IT outage

People were posting on X Friday that Bill Gates was responsible for a worldwide IT outage that was actually caused by Crowdstrike. DEI not the cause, either.

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Claim: Bill Gates is responsible for July 19 global tech outage.

Is Bill Gates to blame for the July 19 faulty software update that led to worldwide disruption of services? Viral social media posts claim so.

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Airports, hospitals and news outlets were among those affected by the global outage. 

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