George Soros funds 'fact-checkers' to benefit leftist rhetoric: NYP
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A New York Post report reveals that Soros joined forces with leftist billionaire Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, to start up a heavily-financed project to spread his own narrative.
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George Soros giving a speech to an audience following his receipt of the Schumpeter Award 2019 in Vienna (AFP)
A New York Post report reveals that US-Hungarian billionaire, George Soros, joined forces with the co-founder of LinkedIn, leftist billionaire Reid Hoffman, to start a project heavily financed to 'fight disinformation'.
During the November midterm elections last year, the project started when an open letter was signed by 11 leftists groups for the Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, intended to call on tech moguls to take “immediate” action to spread so-called “voting disinformation” to “help prevent the undermining” of democracy. A total of $30.3 million merely from Soros himself was invested in such groups over the course of four years.
Social media follows Soros rules
Leftist bias allegations have been found and confirmed to be embroidered in "fact-checking" organizations like PolitiFact and Snopes through studies over the years, but one of the more recent ones on PolitiFact discovered that there are sources six times more likely to defend Biden in their “fact-check” attempts as opposing to actually checking his facts.
PolitiFact’s parent company, The Poynter Institute, receives funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Soros-backed Tides Foundation and Tides Center, and the Carnegie Corp. of New York, among others.
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a 2015 project of The Poynter Institute, is funded by not only the National Endowment for Democracy, which is backed by the US State Department, but also the Omidyar Network, Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The IFCN's mission is “to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation". Its most notable affiliations include the Associated Press fact checker, FactCheck.org, The Dispatch fact checker, The Washington Post fact checker, and PolitiFact.
After Facebook and other social media platforms censored articles stating that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, which was based on denials of controversial scientist claims but when top researchers stated it was possible, the censorships were lifted.
Plot twist: Soros defunds police
Typing George Soros’ name in Google recently has popped up an ad among the results from PolitiFact, enticing the reader to know the “Truth” about Soros, and that “George Soros does not pay protesters. Here’s the truth. The real purpose of the ‘paid protester’ myth.”
The reader is then redirected to a PolitiFact “fact check” of a previous claim of the conservative Candace Owens that Soros is “funding the chaos” in Minneapolis during the 2020 summer riots.
Owens’ claim is labeled “false”, while citing a 2015 fact check by Snopes that actually admits $33 million were given to organizations “that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests”.
In December 2022, tax forms reviewed by Fox News Digital demonstrated that nonprofits in liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations network fueled anti-police groups and initiatives with $35 million in 2021. Significant sums were also transferred in 2021 to organizations that support defunding police, gathering places where progressive activists work to undermine the legal system, and even databases that track donations to unions and foundations for police departments.
