evidence: CLAIM: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says the company’s dream is to "reduce the population by 50%" in 2023. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video, recorded May 25, is altered to cut Bourla’s statement mid-sentence, twisting the meaning. A full video of the statement shows he states the goal is to "reduce the number of people in the world that cannot afford our medicines by 50%." [...] But in the clip circulating on social media, the second sentence has been deceptively edited to make it appear that Bourla was talking about reducing the world’s population. "The first week we met in January of ‘19 in California to set up the goals for the next five years – and one of them was by 2023, we will reduce the number of people in the world by 50%," he appears to say in the edited video.