Fake news In February, the Sunday Telegraph published a story about an extravagant purchase from a usually relatively frugal billionaire. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the second-richest man in the world, had - according to the paper - splashed £500m on the world's first hydrogen-powered superyacht, called the Aqua. The story soon spread worldwide - but it wasn't true. Gates denied the purchase, and Sinot, the company behind the yacht, quickly put out a statement on its website - which no doubt experienced a significant spike in traffic -saying that the Telegraph piece was completely false.
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