{"id":1408025,"date":"2022-03-29T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408025"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:15:38","slug":"fact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-publish-this-tweet-calling-for-the-internet-to-be-reformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-publish-this-tweet-calling-for-the-internet-to-be-reformed\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The World Economic Forum Publish This Tweet Calling For The Internet To Be \u2018Reformed\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-world-economic-forum-publish-this-tweet-calling-for-the-internet-to-be-reformed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/pld9u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a tweet published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) calling for the internet to be \u201creformed\u201d as part of the \u201cGreat Reset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of the WEF publishing such a tweet. A spokesperson for the organization said the tweet was fake.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/pld9u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> appears to show a tweet from the WEF\u2019s verified Twitter account that reads, \u201cThe internet must be reformed, there is too much misinformation out there. This will be the next step for the Great Reset, says Klaus Schwab.\u201d The tweet includes a picture of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/about\/klaus-schwab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klaus Schwab<\/a>, the founder and executive chairman of the WEF.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGreat Reset\u201d is a real WEF initiative that calls for \u201cglobal stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis,\u201d according to the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/great-reset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/06\/fact-check-world-economic-forum-tweet-harvesting-childrens-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The World Economic Forum Tweet About Harvesting Children\u2019s Blood?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The alleged tweet, however, appears to be fabricated. There is no record of it on the WEF\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=the%20internet%20reformed%20(from%3Awef)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220328035448\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/WEF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived versions<\/a> of the WEF Twitter account. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Klaus+Schwab+calls+for+the+internet+to+be+reformed&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Klaus+Schwab+calls+for+the+internet+to+be+reformed&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.8777j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> to corroborate the authenticity of the alleged tweet or Schwab\u2019s purported call for the internet to be \u201creformed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKlaus Schwab, Chairman of the World Economic Forum has never made this statement,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alem-tedeneke-5ab30632\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alem Tedeneke<\/a>, a WEF spokesperson, in an email to Check Your Fact. She also denied the claim that the WEF published such a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a fabricated WEF tweet has gone viral. Check Your Fact previously debunked a purported WEF <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/06\/fact-check-world-economic-forum-tweet-harvesting-childrens-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> that appeared to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/30\/fact-check-world-economic-forum-tweet-age-of-consent-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticize<\/a> the age of consent for \u201cinfringing on human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a tweet published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) calling for the internet to be \u201creformed\u201d as part of the \u201cGreat Reset.\u201dVerdict: False<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}