Bill Gates has been the subject of several conspiracy theories — including that he forces people to eat bugs and that he’s part of a race of shapeshifting lizards — but his daughter Phoebe has had friendships end due to stories that have run rampant about her dad and Covid vaccines. “I’ve even had friends cut me off because of these vaccine rumors,” she shared with her father in new Netflix docuseries “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates,” People notes. Her comments were a reference to the debunked belief that Gates put microchips in the Covid vaccines in order to track people.

Bill still has optimism about the online world, responding to his daughter’s reveal, “I don’t know, I need to learn more because I naively still believe that digital communication can be a force to bring us together, to have reasonable debate.”

Phoebe went on...