World Economic Forum

Video doesn’t show World Economic Forum speaker calling for a cashless society

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Members of the official media set up their camera position at the plenary hall of the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center ahead for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in northern China’s Tianjin Municipality, Monday, June 26, 2023. Social media users are sharing a video misrepresenting remarks Eswar Prasad, an … Read more

Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Say Fashion Will Be Abolished By 2030 And ‘Humans Will Wear A Uniform’

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Did the World Economic Forum announce in early July 2023 that it will ban fashion, making people exclusively wear uniforms by 2030? No, that’s not true: The claim came into being as an exaggerated extrapolation of a 2019 report that wasn’t even produced by the World Economic Forum as an organization. The story appeared in … Read more