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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.
Airports, hospitals and news outlets were among those affected by the global outage.
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Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu is a staff writer with PolitiFact based in Washington, D.C. He previously covered national politics at the Los Angeles Times and global religion at the Associated Press. As a freelancer, he wrote and reported for a range of international media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Quartz, CNN and Al Jazeera English. He has a master of science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor of arts from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
