{"id":1716115,"date":"2022-10-29T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716115"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:34:12","slug":"soros-gives-another-32-million-to-groups-calling-for-pre-midterms-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-gives-another-32-million-to-groups-calling-for-pre-midterms-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros Gives Another $32 Million to Groups Calling for Pre-Midterms Censorship"},"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\">22<\/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-gives-another-32-million-to-groups-calling-for-pre-midterms-censorship%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=1716115&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>Another assortment of groups funded with millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros are adding to the number of groups demanding that Big Tech unleash a censorship Armageddon against so-called election \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> <em>The Washington Post <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/27\/civil-rights-2022-midterms\/\">elevated<\/a> the Orwellian demands of at least 58 groups within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changetheterms.org\/about\">Change the Terms Coalition<\/a>. The coalition, per <em>The Post, <\/em>threw a hissy fit at how Meta, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube were supposedly \u201cjust as ill-prepared to fight disinformation from politicians and other public figures whose public pronouncements about the 2022 midterms could undermine Americans\u2019 faith in the electoral process or lead to violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.changetheterms.org\/fix-the-feed\">#FixTheFeed<\/a>\u201d Campaign, the coalition is \u201ccalling on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube to stop amplifying the worst content on their platforms.\u201d What <em>The Post <\/em>didn\u2019t mention is that at least 28 of the groups who signed on to be part of the coalition were heavily financed by Soros to the tune of $32,250,584 between 2016 and 2020 alone, according to an MRC Business analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the seven groups responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changetheterms.org\/\">leading<\/a> the Change the Terms coalition policies were funded with <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1XVQRDBz1X2dmQ1sQ6ODFDi6ThNTk1PhS4A3HmENp1L0\/edit?usp=sharing\">$13,150,000<\/a> collectively from Soros: Center for American Progress, Color of Change, Free Press, Muslim Advocates, National Hispanic Media Coalition and the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/09\/24\/soros-funded-group-fcc-letter-included-question-whether\">Soros-funded<\/a> Free Press, in particular, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freepress\/status\/1585649266508369920?s=20&#038;t=f-Pp9aPh4HlAaaTkEOkpRA\">released<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-10\/empty_promises_inside_big_techs_weak_effort_to_fight_hate_and_lies_in_2022_free_press_final.pdf\">report<\/a> on behalf of Change the Terms that compared the coalition\u2019s demands with Big Tech\u2019s current policies against curbing election \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<em> The Post <\/em>summarized that the report contested whether tech platforms \u201care living up to their pledges to fight disinformation ahead of the vote.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The document, headlined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-10\/empty_promises_inside_big_techs_weak_effort_to_fight_hate_and_lies_in_2022_free_press_final.pdf\">Empty Promises,<\/a>\u201d read like a Ministry of Truth nightmare out of George Orwell\u2019s <em>1984<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Election misinformation and disinformation are not anecdotal or seasonal. Lies \u2014 particularly the brand of election-denialism rhetoric that rose in 2020 \u2014 have been ubiquitous online for years, and this crisis has no end in sight. To treat \u2018election-related\u2019 disinformation in particular as episodic ignores that it is present year-round and shapes beliefs and opinions that lead to harassment of election officials, and election-related hoaxes and violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_100_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/><\/p>\n<p>Free Press is the same group that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/09\/24\/soros-funded-group-fcc-letter-included-question-whether\">once ripped apart<\/a> by Federal Communications Commission commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/about\/leadership\/brendan-carr\">Brendan Carr<\/a> for including a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Free-Press-petition-FCC-media-racism.pdf\">violent, hate-filled comment in its leftist petition<\/a> for the agency to investigate its \u201chistory of racism.\u201d The comment questioned whether Republicans should be shot \u201cto reclaim our democracy.&#8221; Free Press issued a statement following the backlash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/news\/press-releases\/free-press-statement\">acknowledging<\/a> \u201cthat some violent and inappropriate language was included in the comments\u201d of its petition. The group <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/liberal-group-includes-call-to-shoot-republicans-in-letter-to-fcc\/\">reportedly<\/a> \u201cwithdrew the petition\u201d after Carr denounced it.<\/p>\n<p>Racially-charged Change the Terms leader Color of Change is the same group that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2020\/09\/24\/politico-hypes-soros-funded-group-wanting-defund-police\">pushed<\/a> a 2020 Marxist effort to defund police foundations. The group bills itself as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/colorofchange.org\/about\/\">nation\u2019s largest online racial justice organization<\/a>.\u201d The PAC for Color of Change was also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/06\/21\/financing-hate-george-soros-dumps-1-million-anti-police\">behind<\/a> an anti-police effort called \u201cCut Ties With The [Fraternal Order of Police]\u201d (FOP). FOP is <a href=\"https:\/\/fop.net\/\">self-described<\/a> as \u201cthe voice of our nation\u2019s law enforcement officers.\u201d Color of Change PAC said that the Order was \u201cthe deadliest frat in the world.\u201d Another Change the Terms member, Center for American Progress, was founded by none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/7-biggest-revelations-from-wikileaks-release-of-podesta-emails\">scandal-plagued<\/a> former Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/people\/podesta-john\/\">John Podesta<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/corinne-weaver\/2017\/08\/17\/journalism-cnn-promotes-splcs-dangerous-and-discredited\">hate map<\/a>\u201d that smears conservative and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/alexander-hall\/2020\/04\/09\/leftist-splc-attacks-american-family-association-hate\">faith-based organizations<\/a> as hate groups, is another Soros-funded group that helped draft Change the Terms\u2019 policies.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/10\/14\/breaking-soros-gave-30m-groups-urging-censorship-so-called\">not the only censorship effort<\/a> Soros-funded groups are leading. The Soros-funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/10\/14\/breaking-soros-gave-30m-groups-urging-censorship-so-called\">spearheaded<\/a> 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 companies 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 Soros funded LCCHR, in addition to six of the 12 signatories, with $30,325,500 between 2016 and 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear: Soros-funded groups are determined to ensure that free speech is not a factor in determining the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives are under attack.<\/em><\/strong><em> Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/about#Contact\"><em>contact form<\/em><\/a><em>, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another assortment of groups funded with millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros are adding to the number of groups demanding that Big Tech unleash a censorship Armageddon against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1716119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716115","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=1716115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}