Elon Musk hosted SNL over the weekend, and it was terrible even by SNL standards. Could he have been sabotaged? We also look at whether TikTok could be a spy tool for the Chinese government. And did you ever wonder why anyone listens to Bill Gates about anything?

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WHY DO WE TRUST BILL & MELINDA GATES ON VACCINES?

• Last week, Bill and Melinda Gates announced they're filing for divorce after 27 years of marriage. SOURCE: Business Insider
• Just three weeks before the divorce, Melinda bought a $1.8 million cottage in Seattle, and she officially became a billionaire after Bill transferred $2.4 billion in stocks. SOURCES: Market Watch, Business Insider
• An employee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said Bill's ties to Jeffrey Epstein may have played into Melinda's decision to meet with divorce lawyers in 2019. SOURCE: WSJ

• Bill and Melinda had an agreement that Bill could see his ex, Ann Winblad, at a North Carolina beach house one weekend a year to take beach walks and read about molecular biology. SOURCE: Business Insider, Time
• Bill Gates' track record on vaccines is a little muddled.
  • Bill Gates' lack of experience has caused a lot of conspiracy theories to pop up around the COVID vaccine. Melinda assured us these crazy theories aren't true! SOURCE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics found that in 2012, there were 47,500 new cases of Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis, directly proportional to doses of oral polio vaccine administered. SOURCE: IJME
  • And the oral polio vaccine was partially funded by Bill Gates' foundation. SOURCE: IndiaToday
  • Fact checkers have said there's no definitive proof the vaccine caused the cases of paralysis. But even the WHO had to issue a statement about "rare" cases where NPAFP was caused by vaccines. SOURCE: WHO
  • And Gates said in a 2010 Ted Talk that vaccines could help reduce the population by 10%-15%. SOURCE: TEDtalk

TIKTOK IS DEGENERATE TRASH

• TikTok targets the younger generations. SOURCE: Statista
• 62% of users were between 10 and 29 years old
• Compared to just 7.1% 50 or older
• 2 famous TikTok users, "Abortion Queen" and "Abortion Counselor," create fake abortion videos just to go viral, but still give medical advice. SOURCE: DailyBeast
• Amelia Bonow, founder of the group "Shout Your Abortion," even hired the user "Abortion Counselor" to normalize abortion through a larger TikTok presence. Bonow defended her decision to hire "Abortion Counselor," saying: The idea that abortion is always a serious and sad thing is antiquated [...] We can talk about abortion however we want, it doesn't always have to be heavy. Sometimes it's hilarious." SOURCE: DailyBeast
• Other countries share the USA's concerns.
  • TikTok is a concern to the U.S. The FCC fined TikTok $5.7 million for illegally collecting data from children under 13. SOURCE: Washington Post
  • India banned TikTok for exposing teens to sexual predators, porn, and national security threats. SOURCE: BBC, CNN
  • The U.K. investigated TikTok for illegally selling children's data. SOURCE: CNBC
  • And Australia, Japan, the EU, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan have all expressed similar concerns over Tiktok's security issues and "obscene content." SOURCE: Washington Post
• TikTok is a National Security Threat
  • TikTok was BANNED by the U.S. Army and Navy because of its national security risks. SOURCE: NBC
  • So what are those security risks? TikTok works with the Chinese Communist Party to spread propaganda about the Uighur Muslim genocide. SOURCE: Business Insider
  • The FCC fined TikTok for illegally collecting data from children under 13. SOURCE: Washington Post
  • And here's just SOME of the information TikTok stores: SOURCE: Reuters, BBC
    • Your name
    • Your age
    • Your email address
    • Your phone number
    • Your location
    • Any user-generated content
    • Your photos and videos
    • Your phone model
    • Your keystroke rhythms when typing
    • What you watch and comment on
  • All the data they have can and will be used in cyber warfare. Here's a photo of TikTok's parent company ByteDance, based in Beijing, holding the Communist flag. SOURCE: Taiwan News

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