A video posted to social media features a 2015 interview of Klaus Schwab, an economist who founded the World Economic Forum, saying that gene editing impacts an individual’s identity. The video falsely claims that this statement is evidence that mRNA vaccines can alter genetic material. At no point in the interview does Schwab mention vaccines. The technology that he is discussing is unrelated to any of the COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed five years after the interview. False claims that mRNA vaccines alter DNA have been debunked repeatedly but persist online.
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