By Will Lockett
Publication Date: 2026-09-27 21:01:00
There is a reason there are so many bats**t crazy conspiracy theories about Bill Gates. Under his leadership, Microsoft was one of the shadiest companies around. It took a colossal amount of backstabbing, manipulation, customer exploitation, and bending the law to cement Microsoft as the final boss of the personal computer age (and I highly recommend watching Volksgeist’s video on the subject). But since Gates left Microsoft in 2020, it’s easy to see why you might think much of this has stopped. Well, nope, not at all! New unsealed documents, leaks, government investigations and reports have painted a truly harrowing picture that Microsoft knew all along just how much damage their AI craze would wreak. Yet, they did it anyway. So, let’s follow this breadcrumb trail.
In December 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI for using its copyrighted material to train their AI models. This lawsuit is still ongoing, with Microsoft being dragged in as one of OpenAI’s main backers, and…
