Fact Check: Debunking claim John Kerry's daughter said billions of people must die for 'New World Order'
John Kerry's daughter Vanessa Kerry said billions of humans must die for the "New World Order."
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For more than a year, a rumor circulated online that physician Vanessa Kerry — a daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the World Health Organization's (WHO) director-general special envoy for climate change and health — said that billions of humans need to die for the sake of the "New World Order."
One version of the claim was shared on X in late May 2025 (archived). The post, which had amassed more than 60,000 views as of this writing, included a picture of the public health expert with text below it reading: "John Kerry's Daughter Says BILLIONS of Humans Must Die for the 'New World Order.'"
(X user @its_The_Dr)
Other examples of the rumor appeared elsewhere on X in January 2025 and in numerous social media posts in August 2024. Some dated back as far as April that year.
Many posts cited another X user as the source of the claim. That user's account was linked to a website called The People's Voice (TPV), which has produced content that Snopes has repeatedly debunked.
TPV, which previously had several different names, published an article (archived) on April 4, 2024, making the same claim about Vanessa Kerry. That same day, the TPV-linked X user also posted a video (archived) discussing the physician, alongside the caption: "John Kerry's Daughter Says BILLIONS of Humans Must Die for the 'New World Order.'"
The footage included numerous clips of Kerry speaking; however, none involved her saying anything about billions of people dying for the "New World Order." Therefore, we have rated this quote as incorrectly attributed to her.
The clips used in the video came from the WHO special envoy's keynote address (archived) at the COP28 "Reaching the Last Mile" Forum on Dec. 3, 2023.
Kerry — who was appointed to her WHO role in 2023 — did not call for the sacrifice of billions of people anywhere in the COP28 video or its transcript.
Google search results also produced no credible reports about her ever previously producing such a statement; neither did searches on Bing or Yahoo.
A spokesperson for the physician said via email that the claim was completely false: "These claims are simply absurd. Dr Vanessa Kerry did not say these words as evidenced in the video of the speech."
TPV refused to answer questions when Snopes contacted them.
In October 2023, Reuters produced a similar fact check about Kerry's father, the former U.S. secretary of state, allegedly saying billions of people must die for the "New World Order." Reuters also credited TPV as the source of that claim, which the news media outlet rated as false.
Admin, Seed. 'Dr. Vanessa Kerry's Keynote Address at the COP28 Reaching the Last Mile Forum'. Seed Global Health, 5 Dec. 2023, https://seedglobalhealth.org/2023/12/05/dr-vanessa-kerrys-keynote-address-at-the-cop28-reaching-the-last-mile-forum/.
'Fact Check: John Kerry Quote on "Sacrificing" Billions of People to Save Earth Is False'. Reuters, 31 Oct. 2023. www.reuters.com, https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/john-kerry-quote-sacrificing-billions-people-save-earth-is-false-2023-10-31/.
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Kasprak, Alex. 'CDC Said mRNA Jabs Have Caused a "14,000% Increase in Turbo Cancer"?' Snopes, 20 Apr. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/cdc-turbo-cancer/.
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