evidence: For example, one video on Facebook stated "Bill Gates has been releasing GMO mosquitoes in Florida and Texas and now, those two states, coincidentally, have malaria", while another claimed that "Bill Gates wants you to experience malaria". However, this claim is baseless, as we show below. Contrary to what was implied on social media, the release of genetically modified mosquitoes isn’t Bill Gates’ doing. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded grants to the biotechnology company Oxitec, which has been working on the control of insect populations through genetic technology. [...] In summary, the release of genetically modified mosquitoes by Oxitec isn’t responsible for the malaria outbreak of 2023 in the U.S.. Oxitec’s mosquitoes belong to a genus that cannot transmit the parasite responsible for malaria. Though rare, malaria cases aren’t unheard of in the U.S. Scientific research forecasts that the global rise in the world’s temperature will favor the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes in temperate areas. A rise in outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria in North America over the next decades can thus be expected[2-6].