Table 5.

A qualitative overview of key relationships that refer to “Bill Gates” in social media and the news reports

Date	News reports	4Chan threads
04/04	[Bill {Gates}] $\to$ [{predicted}] $\to$ [the {outbreak} and the China biolabs]	[{5g}] $\to$ [{causes}] $\to$ [{coronavirus}], [regular {people}] $\to$ [{go}] $\to$ [{untested}]
04/07	[conspiracy theorist David {Icke}] $\to$ [{added}] $\to$[that Bill {Gates}, who is helping fund vaccine research, should be jailed]	[{Gates}] $\to$ [{saying}] $\to$ [[...]we all [...] accept his discount mark of the beast]
04/09	[Bill {Gates}] $\to$[{invented}] $\to$[{5G} to depopulate the world]	[the satanic {cabal}] $\to$ [to {leverage}] $\to$ [crisis into a forced vaccination /I D {program}]

These relationships describe the role that the “Bill Gates” node plays in connecting the Corona virus to conspiracy theories