{"id":1695436,"date":"2022-10-14T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695436"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:49:57","slug":"soros-gave-30-million-to-groups-pushing-for-censorship-of-so-called-disinfo-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-gave-30-million-to-groups-pushing-for-censorship-of-so-called-disinfo-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros Gave $30 Million to Groups Pushing for Censorship Of So-Called &#8220;Disinfo&#8221; Ahead of Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoros-gave-30-million-to-groups-pushing-for-censorship-of-so-called-disinfo-ahead-of-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Liberal billionaire George Soros funded groups that are now urging the heads of major Big Tech platforms to step up their censorship just before the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p> The Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) spearheaded an Oct. 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/civilrights.org\/resource\/leadership-conference-and-democracy-groups-urge-social-media-platforms-to-address-voter-disinformation-ahead-of-midterms\/#\">open letter<\/a> signed by 11 other liberal groups pining for Big Tech to \u201c[t]ake immediate steps to curb the spread of voting disinformation in the midterms and future elections and to help prevent the undermining of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter agonized over how \u201c[t]he 2022 midterm elections are only a few weeks away, but online disinformation continues to confuse, intimidate, and harass voters, suppress the right to vote, and otherwise disrupt our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups addressed the letter to Facebook CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Google CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/perspectives\/sundar-pichai\/\">Sundar Pichai<\/a>, Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\">Parag Agrawal<\/a>, YouTube CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/susanwojcicki\">Susan Wojcicki<\/a>, TikTok CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/profile\/person\/19257745\">Shou Zi Chew <\/a>, Snap CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evanspiegel\">Evan Spiegel<\/a> and Instagram CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mosseri\/?hl=en\">Adam Mosseri<\/a>. Soros gave a whopping $30,325,500 to at least seven of the 12 total signatories between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>MRC President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/l-brent-bozell-iii\">Brent Bozell<\/a> didn\u2019t mince words about what side of the political aisle was going to be most affected by what the Soros-funded groups were urging. \u201cSoros spent $30M on groups trying to get Big Tech to censor conservatives ahead of the midterms,&#8221; Bozell said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter doesn\u2019t only target election-related posts on Big Tech platforms. It also demands that actions be taken against political candidates:<\/p>\n[T]here is very little in your 2022 policies that reflects the ongoing and new challenges facing us as the midterms approach. Many of the bad actors and election deniers have continued and stepped up their online spread of false information since 2020, and <strong>some are even on the ballots for elected office in 2022. The policies and actions by platforms must do more to specifically combat these trends in 2022 and beyond<\/strong>, [emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p> The letter railed that Big Tech platforms haven\u2019t done enough to censor so-called \u201cmis\/disinformation,\u201d and urged more activism on the censorship front. \u201cWhile your companies have recently made announcements regarding 2022 policy updates to combat election disinformation, we have yet to see meaningful steps on the actions that we requested in\u201d another May 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Coalition-letter-for-2022-mid-terms-1.pdf\">petition<\/a> signed by more than 120 groups.<\/p>\n<p>The latest letter endorsed actions by several platforms \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/paiten-iselin\/2022\/08\/17\/here-we-go-again-twitter-and-facebook-censor-speech\">Facebook and Twitter<\/a> \u2014 to update \u201cvoter interference and disinformation policies.\u201d The leftist groups praised how the efforts \u201cdemonstrate that your companies understand the importance of addressing voting disinformation.\u201d However, the letter nagged, \u201cthe policies have little or no effect unless you enforce them continually and consistently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Censorship before a U.S. election is not a new phenomenon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nb-staff\/2020\/11\/09\/fact-big-media-and-big-tech-stole-2020-election\">Big Media and Big Tech stole the 2020 election<\/a>, throwing it to President Joe Biden. A 2020 MRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2020\/11\/24\/special-report-stealing-presidency-2020\">poll<\/a> found that 45 percent of Biden voters weren\u2019t fully aware of the <em>New York Post <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/kayla-sargent\/2020\/10\/30\/new-york-post-twitter-lock-reaches-seventeenth-day\">story<\/a> exposing alleged corrupt dealings involving him and his son Hunter precisely because Big Media and Big Tech whitewashed it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal billionaire George Soros funded groups that are now urging the heads of major Big Tech platforms to step up their censorship just before the 2022 midterm elections. The Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) spearheaded an Oct. 13 open letter signed by 11 other liberal groups pining for Big Tech to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}