evidence: The World Economic Forum, a nongovernmental body that brings elites in business and politics together, is regularly accused of instituting or planning nefarious "globalist" schemes, including an alleged plot to mass murder cats and dogs to prevent climate change. That claim reemerged on X in late July 2024: [...] A few days later, on Dec. 9, 2022, that same website repurposed this same general article to advance a new version of the same claim: that the World Economic Forum, specifically, and not "climate activists" in general, had issued this directive for the slaughter of pets to save the climate. [...] The WEF has never advocated such a policy. The WEF has, in fact, shared reporting on the concept of a "carbon pawprint" on their website. None of these articles, however, advocate killing pets. A June 2017 WEF blog post, for example, argued: