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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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Madison Czopek is a staff writer for PolitiFact. Previously, she was a reporter at Wareham Week, a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. She has also written for...
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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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ByMadison Czopek, PolitiFact
Madison Czopek is a staff writer for PolitiFact. Previously, she was a reporter at Wareham Week, a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts. She has also written for PolitiFact Missouri and worked as a reporter at the Columbia Missourian, where she covered city, county and state government. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri where she earned degrees in journalism and political science.