What official statements have Bill Gates or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued denying use of his likeness in supplement ads?

1. What the supplied reporting actually documents about fake Gates content

Multiple fact‑checking and news outlets in the provided materials identify manipulated video and audio that attribute statements or endorsements to Bill Gates that he never made, describing them as deepfakes or edited clips; BOOM’s fact check explains voice‑cloning and re‑editing techniques used to create fake Gates interviews ^[1], and AAP’s fact check concludes an ABC “grilling” clip was altered with fabricated audio and questions ^[2]. These items establish that misleading or fabricated media placing words in Gates’s mouth has been widespread in the sample of sources ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Where reporting mentions denials — and who is doing the denying

The denials documented in the supplied files are primarily the work of independent fact‑checkers and the journalists who flagged the content as falsified; for example, BOOM reached out to experts and concluded the viral clip was fake ^[1], while AAP’s fact check explicitly labeled the ABC clip a forgery ^[2]. The materials also include commentary from people targeted by fake ads (a separate case involving Dr. Mark Hyman) who warned audiences about fabricated promotional videos, but those are not statements from Gates or his foundation ^[4].

3. Gates’s own public posture on misinformation — relevant but not a direct denial

Bill Gates has publicly written and spoken about the broader problem of misinformation and deepfakes, emphasizing detection and the limits of platforms, which frames why fabricated endorsements circulate, but these statements are general and not tailored as denials of particular supplement ads ^[3]. That public posture documents his awareness of the phenomenon and policy concerns but is not the same as an official, ad‑specific repudiation in the supplied reporting ^[3].

4. What the absence of an explicit Gates/Foundation denial in these sources means

Because none of the provided items contains a Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation press release or tweet explicitly saying “we did not authorize use of Bill Gates’s likeness in X supplement ad,” it cannot be claimed on the basis of these sources that such a denial has been issued; reporting instead documents third‑party fact checks and widespread conspiratorial narratives about Gates’s involvement in “fake food” and other products, often promoted by partisan or fringe sites ^{[5] [6] [7]}. The absence of a direct denial in the supplied corpus is a reporting limitation, not proof that no denial exists elsewhere ^{[5] [6] [7]}.

5. Alternative viewpoints, agendas and how they shape the record

The supplied sources include a mix of mainstream fact checks and clearly partisan or conspiratorial outlets that amplify claims tying Gates to “fake food,” lab‑grown products, or alleged endorsements; outlets like BOOM, AAP and Daily Dot debunk manipulations ^{[1] [2] [8]}, while sites such as Cypher News, News Addicts and others push alarmist narratives without substantiating primary denials from Gates or his foundation ^{[5] [7]}. Those competing agendas matter because fact checks focus on falsity of content, whereas advocacy or conspiratorial pieces seek to stigmatize Gates and often do not produce or cite formal responses from him or his foundation ^{[1] [2] [5]}.

6. Bottom line for the record requested

Based on the material provided, there are documented fact checks and expert analyses labeling viral videos and audios that appear to use Bill Gates’s likeness or voice as fake or deepfakes ^{[1] [2]}, and Gates has written publicly about misinformation generally ^[3]; however, the supplied reporting does not include a direct, contemporaneous official statement from Bill Gates or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explicitly denying that his likeness was used in a particular supplement advertisement, so that specific denial cannot be cited from these sources (p1_s1–^[4]5).