The claim

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is said to be advertising microchip implants for children.

Our conclusion

The original article only addresses microchip implants for children in a single paragraph. This does not promote it, but rather questions it, as such implants raise ethical and safety questions.

There are a lot of things we use to correct physical deficits: glasses for visually impaired people, hearing aids for the hearing impaired, prostheses for arm and leg amputees.
However, microchip implants are always a little scary: you can't simply remove them, and you never know what the electronics in a chip will do. And now the World Economic Forum is supposedly advertising microchip implants for children! Apparently, because in fact it is only a single paragraph in an opinion article in which this is critically questioned.

The excitement

Various articles and tweets claim that the WEF (World Economic Forum) is promoting microchip implants for children:

Tweets about the alleged promotion of microchip implants
Tweets about the alleged promotion of microchip implants

Most of the articles and tweets also contain a photo of Klaus Schwab, the founder of the WEF, to suggest even more clearly that this is an official “advertisement” from the World Economic Forum for microchip implants.

The trigger of the claim

It is likely that many people who unthinkingly spread the claim have not even bothered to read the English-language article on the WEF website, partly due to lack of knowledge of the language, partly due to laziness or ignorance. That's why we'll briefly summarize the article here, go into the relevant paragraph and point out important features of the article.

The trigger for the claim is a single paragraph from the article “Augmented tech can change the way we live, but only with the right support and vision”. only with the right support and vision” (see HERE ).

  • The content of the article

The article looks at how advanced technologies are already making our lives easier, especially in the areas of healthcare and mobility. There is also speculation about how implant technologies might replace current visual and hearing aids in the future and in which areas they could still be used.

However, there are also limits to this technology, which are not of a scientific/technical nature, but of an ethical nature, since a lot is possible, but perhaps not all possibilities are actually desired or ethically justifiable.

  • The paragraph about microchip implants for children

It is only in the last third of the article that microchip implants for children are discussed. This paragraph is:

The paragraph about microchip implants
The paragraph on microchip implants, source: WEF

“The limits to implants are set more by ethical arguments than by scientific capacity.
For example, should you implant a tracking chip in your child? There are solid, rational reasons for this, such as [the children's] safety. Would you actually do it? Wouldn't that be overreaching? Another important element is [digital] security. Remember when former American Vice President Dick Cheney was modified to prevent hacking? Even for life-saving technologies, appropriate ethical advice and a legal framework are a must.”

Source: WEF

There is absolutely no advertising for microchip implants for children , but only one positive point is mentioned: the safety of children. The question is immediately asked as to whether this would not be an exaggeration; it is even pointed out that microchips always carry the risk of being misused by criminals.

  • It is an opinion article on the WEF website

At the top you can already see that the article is not an official statement from the WEF, but an opinion article, in English: Opinion:

An opinion article
An opinion article, source: WEF

Below the article it is pointed out once again that the author Kathleen Philips represents her own opinion in the article, not that of the WEF:

The license agreement under the article including the note
The license agreement under the article including the note, source: WEF

“The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of the World Economic Forum.”

Let's summarize

  • Although the article is on the WEF website, it is the opinion piece of a single person
  • Only a single paragraph mentions microchip implants for children
  • This paragraph is not promoting it, but rather questioning it critically, as this raises ethical and safety issues

So, with the best will in the world, we cannot speak of “the WEF advertising microchip implants for children”.

Also interesting:

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