How George Soros Funds “Fact Checkers” to Silence Dissent
George Soros is America’s most dangerous man. The investor intends to remake the country to his liberal image. This includes changing our foreign-policy priorities and undermining our criminal justice system. This week, The Post takes a look at the reach of Soros’ billions. Matt Palumbo is the author of this fourth essay. “The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros,” Discussions on how “fact checking” You can influence the story.
It’s not enough for George Soros to fund the media and encourage stories that back up his point of view — he has to make sure no one disagrees with it.
Soros and Reid Hoffman, a fellow leftist billionaire and co-founder of LinkedIn, teamed up last year to financially support a project to combat so-called disinformation. They might have taken the name Good Information Inc. from George Orwell.
Anything that is not in line with the narrative should be branded as “disinformation” has become the left’s latest strategy to fight anything that threatens their spin, and Soros has taken note.
Later in the year and heading into the midterms the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights funded by Soros called on Big Tech CEOs in an open-letter signed by 11 other leftist organizations to take part in the Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “immediate” Action to spread the so-called “voting disinformation” To “help prevent the undermining” Democracy. Within a span of four years, Soros had given $30.3 million to the signatories.
Soros has been successful across the Atlantic with fact-checkers in censoring narratives that are harmful to the Left.
Remix, a Hungarian newspaper, revealed that eight of the eleven Facebook-approved fact-checking organizations for Central and Eastern Europe were funded by Soros. These fact-checking groups, as with the US, are strongly critical of the political left.
Major fact-checking organizations such as PolitiFact, Snopes, and others have long faced allegations of left-wing political bias — allegations a series of studies over the years have confirmed. A recent study of bias on PolitiFact revealed that sources were six times more likely than others to defend Biden. “fact-checks” Instead, check his facts.
Major funding for PolitiFact’s parent company, The Poynter Institute, includes the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Soros-backed Tides Foundation and Tides Center, the Carnegie Corp. of New York among many others.
Poynter Institute’s flagship project was the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). It was launched in 2015 by the National Endowment for Democracy (backed US State Department), Omidyar Network Google, Facebook, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The IFCN serves as the “high body” For the many fact-checking organisations that it oversees, which all work under a common code and mission “to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation.”
Among the most prominent organizations affiliated with the IFCN are the Associated Press fact-checker, FactCheck.org and The Dispatch truth checker, The Washington Post facts checker, and PolitiFact.
These are the problems, however. “fact checks” They are anything but neutral. Facebook and other social media companies censored articles suggesting that the COVID-19 virus had leaked from Wuhan’s lab. This was based on claims of scientists who were in conflict of interest. Now that even top researchers say the lab leak is a distinct possibility, they’ve lifted those restrictions.
Hunter Biden’s laptop was censored because intelligence officials said it “could be” Russian disinformation — it wasn’t. Even though they have data backing them up, articles that question the effects of climate changes are given warning labels.
As is the case with Soros’ financing of media, in addition to spreading leftist narratives, he buys his own name protection. A simple search for Soros’ name on PolitiFact’s website reveals that they’re unwilling to admit a single damning allegation made against the man — of which there are many.
PolitiFact, in particular, will go further to defend Soros and make sure that people see him.
Those who found themselves Googling George Soros’ name in past months may have seen an ad display among the top of the results from PolitiFact, inviting the searcher to learn the “Truth” About Soros “George Soros does not pay protesters. Here’s the truth. The real purpose of the ‘paid protester’ myth.”
Anybody who clicked on the ad would receive a PolitiFact report. “fact check” Candace Owens claimed that Soros is a pundit “funding the chaos” Minneapolis, through his Open Society Foundations during summer 2020 riots.
According to the standard for fact-checkers of politically charged topics, the articles they write read as though the conclusions were written first and the arguments last. To create the Soros image that they want, they ignore all allegations against him and fact-check only tangential or false claims.
Emily Venezky predictably rates Owens’ claim “False” While citing Snopes 2015 fact check which admits Soros donated $33M to organizations “that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests” The past. Then, she attempts to cover that admission with the supposed Disclaimer when it comes to the Minneapolis riots of 2015. “However, they had never given money to groups for the express purpose of organizing protests with the movement.”
Did she really expect that there would be a line item to address rioting within their grants?
Candace doesn’t care if Soros funds protesters in the same way in the exact city Candace claims. It is irrelevant to the bigger point that Soros gives money to groups that want to defund the police.
In a similar vein, PolitiFact’s Yacob Reyes wrote an article to debunk claims that Soros was funding Black Lives Matter — only to admit and downplay his funding of BLM-adjacent groups. Owens said that Soros had funded Black Lives Matter. I wrote this in response. “injected $33 million into Black Lives Matter,” Reyes rated the claim “False” because the groups weren’t official BLM groups — but merely radical far-left groups that share virtually an identical ideology to Black Lives Matter (and everything else Soros funds) and engage in the same kind of disruptive activities.
Of the dozens of fact-checks mentioning Soros’ name on PolitiFact’s website, every single one without exception serves to deny what Soros’ multibillion-dollar empire is funding or debunk what amounts to chain email-tier rumors about him.
Every claim has been fact-checked. “False” Or “Pants on Fire”) is someone making a negative claim about Soros that PolitiFact responds to as if they’re his p.r. agent. When it comes down to objectively truthful allegations about Soros network such as his funding rogue prosecutors nationwide and his connections media figures, his connection to the Biden White House, etc., fact-checkers just ignore them.
This is essentially why Soros and other left-wing organizations have weaponized “fact checking” — it allows them to pressure social media to censoring any news they don’t like.
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