Does everybody need to speak from a position of authority? He is an influential person, seems like it's enough for the news.
Influential because he ran Microsoft.
Does this mean I should accept the solution to all ills is a massive tracking apparatus forced on me through governments because Bill Gates says so? Or even that I should accept the vaccines paid for by government manufactured by Bill Gates under a system where he has no product liability?
Don't these seem like reasonable questions?
The fallacy of appeal to false authority is applicable here.
Source?