{"id":4560,"date":"2023-03-23T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:10:43","slug":"fact-check-pfizer-ceo-has-not-announced-plans-to-reduce-the-worlds-population-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/fact-check-pfizer-ceo-has-not-announced-plans-to-reduce-the-worlds-population-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT-CHECK: Pfizer CEO has not announced plans to reduce the world\u2019s population by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4561 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1-860x578.png 860w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2023-03-22-at-1.56.56-PM-1024x688-1-750x504.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Claim:<\/strong>\u00a0Pfizer CEO announces plan to reduce the world\u2019s population by 50%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0Viral video<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:\u00a0FALSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researched by Gifty Tracy Aminu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Has the Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer, Albert Bourla announced plans to reduce the population of the world by 50% in 2023?<\/p>\n<p>A 30-second long video footage shared by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230313094038\/https:\/twitter.com\/MrPotatoheadPHD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-suspended Twitter account<\/a>, on May 28, 2022, supposedly shows Albert Bourla making the claim and the clip is now being cross-published on Facebook and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4562 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"1097\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf.jpeg 828w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf-773x1024.jpeg 773w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf-768x1018.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pf-750x994.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first week we met, in January of \u201819, in California to set up the goals for the next five years, and one of them was, by 2023, we will reduce the number of people in the world by 50%. I think today the dream is becoming a reality,\u201d Albert Bourla can be heard saying in the viral video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact-Check<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Checks by FactSpace WA show that Albert Bourla did not make those remarks. But rather the video has been deceptively altered and his words are being misrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to the full 33 minutes and 15 seconds long World Economic Forum conversation that hosted the CEO of Pfizer, at no point did he make those claims.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conversation with Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer | Davos | #WEF22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ccd3LMNMl8\" width=\"940\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Between minutes 1: 56 \u2013 3: 00 of the full video available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ccd3LMNMl8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel of the World Economic Forum<\/a>, Albert Bourla is heard highlighting the ambition of the company to make medicine affordable to 50% of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I think it\u2019s really fulfilling of a dream that we had together, with my leadership team, when we started in \u201819.<strong>\u00a0The first week we met, in January of \u201819 in California, to set up the goals for the next five years, and one of them was, by 2023, we will reduce the number of people in the world that cannot afford our medicines by 50%.\u00a0<\/strong>I think today this dream is becoming a reality,\u201d he partly said in the World Economic Forum summit conversation on May 25, 2022, in Davos, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>The short viral video clip seems to have been cut out of the full video and presented in a misleading context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The claim that the CEO of Pfizer has announced plans to reduce the world\u2019s population by 50% in 2023 is\u00a0<strong>FALSE<\/strong>\u00a0and the video is\u00a0<strong>MISLEADING.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim:\u00a0Pfizer CEO announces plan to reduce the world\u2019s population by 50% Source:\u00a0Viral video 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