
Did Bill Gates, one of the world's richest people, visit Kashi Vishwanath Temple? No, the viral claim is false.
A video about a temple and tourists has been shared on social media. Users are sharing this video with the claim that the ” world’s richest man Bill Gates comes under the divine shelter of Baba Kashi Vishwanath”

Other users have also made similar claims by sharing videos, which can be seen by clicking here and here.
Fact Check
The DFRAC team searched the relevant keywords to investigate the viral claim, but we did not find any media report related to Bill Gates’ recent arrival in India. To investigate further into it, we did a reverse image search of the keyframes of the viral video. We found this viral video on a YouTube channel named Gulluck, which was uploaded on 24 December 2024. The video mentions that a person resembling Bill Gates reached Kashi Vishwanath.

In another video, shot from the back side of the person in question, uploaded on the Gulluck YouTube channel, the person has been described as a ‘Duplicate of Bill Gates’.

Lastly, we also visited Bill Gates social media handles but no information was found regarding his recent visit to India.

Conclusion:
DFRAC’s fact check clearly shows that the person seen in the viral video is not Bill Gates, but rather a lookalike of him. Hence the user’s claim is misleading.