If Gates decides to change his mind, history will be rewritten to fit this narrative.
All his webpages and even news articles will be edited/updated.
Social media will delete things that don’t agree.
YouTube will delete things that don’t agree.
Google will rank anything which disagrees low.
Fact checkers will claim this to be the truth.
MICRO SOFT NBC (MSNBC) will never mention or replay anything on any of their network affiliates which contradicts.
And of you believe that to be an over exaggeration, go look for the legal cases which MS/Bill Gates lost against Netscape, or Borland, how much and how easily do you find anything?
As Eisenhower said to the press when the full extent of the death camps became known, "Take pictures of all of this, because in 50 years they'll be denying it ever happened."
Buy the physical books.
I have a place where I put Printed articles for posterity....just for the reasons you state.
Sounds like a book I read. 1984.