If Bill Gates wanted to do that, wouldn’t he have done it through, I don’t know, Windows? It was only the most widespread OS until a decade ago with a market share of over 90% worldwide.
How exactly would an operating system implant people with microchips?
I think the bigger story is how insidious online disinformation is, how quickly it spreads, and the underlying cultural/political factors that drive people to believe outlandish things no matter how irrational it is or seems.
This is the 2016 election on overdrive, yet few seem to be talking about it very seriously yet.