evidence: A number of widely shared posts suggest that malaria outbreaks are happening in the "exact places" that a company backed by Bill Gates has been releasing mosquitoes. The posts also note that "it must be a coincidence that from 2003-2023 there wasn’t one case of Malaria spread by mosquitos [sic]". The posts on Twitter and Facebook appear to be referring to locally-transmitted malaria cases recorded in the United States—the first such cases in the country in 20 years. But there is no evidence this has been caused by a Bill Gates-backed company which produces genetically modified mosquitoes, as the posts appear to imply. The company in question has itself described the suggestion as "scientifically impossible". [...] Given that the mosquitoes Oxitec has released are male Aedes aegypti, rather than female Anopheles, these insects can’t be the cause of any transmission of malaria.