Oh, what a difference a decade makes. Back in 2016, Bill Gates' public image still sported the saintly halo that the massive PR budget of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation afforded him. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama for his philanthropic work in medicine, science and education.
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