Anti-Semites’ Favorite Boogeyman The newly empowered white nationalist movement has a favorite boogeyman — 88-year-old Jewish billionaire and Holocaust survivor George Soros. From neo-Nazi websites like The Daily Stormer to Republican campaign ads, from the NRA to presidential tweets, the racist trope of the Jewish conspiracy has made an unwelcome return — this time it’s…
The head of a U.S. government agency apologized to financier George Soros and his foundation after airing a program that upheld conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes, the Washington Post reported. John Lansing, chief executive and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an agency that shares news abroad, sent letters to Soros and Open…
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg was directly involved in the company’s actions against liberal megadonor George Soros, asking the social media company’s communications staff to research his financial activities, the New York Times reported. Sandberg asked for the information in an email to a senior executive in January, days after Soros called Facebook and…
The Facebook executive who ordered a PR firm to paint George Soros as the secret hand behind attacks on the company serves on the board that oversees the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Facebook is facing allegations that its efforts to link critics to the billionaire Jewish financier, revealed in a New York Times story…
When it came out last spring that the privacy of millions of Facebook users was compromised, the company’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg needed a plan to shift the anger — so she threw George Soros’s name into the mix. The New York Times reported Wednesday that while Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for…
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, known for peddling a conspiracy theory about billionaire liberal George Soros, held his House seat in Florida’s 1st Congressional District. The Republican incumbent held a steady lead over Jennifer Zimmerman, with nearly 67% of the vote. Gaetz said last month on Fox News that he has “reason to believe” Soros, who…
Fox News Channel regularly refers Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros, often peddling conspiracy theories about his influence — but the conservative station won’t allow a Soros representative to refute the claims on air, one of his top aides told CNN. Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, told CNN on Sunday that Fox News…
In the wake of the bloodiest anti-Semitic attack in modern American history, many are rightfully emotional and fearful, myself included. But passions have run amok a week before Election Day. Some of this emotion is getting the better of us, and public discourse has descended into the absurd. Even in the face of tragedy, proportion…
