A claim that Vanessa Kerry, a daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, said that billions of people have to die for the sake of the "New World Order" has been circulating online since mid-2024.
For example, in early January 2025, one X user posted a picture (archived) of physician Vanessa Kerry with text below it reading: "John Kerry's Daughter Says BILLIONS of Humans Must Die for the 'New World Order.'"
That post had amassed more than 2 million views as of this writing.
(X user @iluminatibot)
The rumor cropped up across social media throughout August 2024, while similar posts appeared earlier in the year on X, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, as well as on video-sharing platforms BitChute and Rumble.
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, the World Health Organization's (WHO) director-general special envoy for climate change and health. 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 being misattributed 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.
There were also no credible reports she had ever previously produced such a statement.
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.