{"id":1837084,"date":"2023-02-06T13:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837084"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:37:55","slug":"soros-funded-group-targets-elon-musk-for-daring-to-interact-with-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-funded-group-targets-elon-musk-for-daring-to-interact-with-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Funded Group Targets Elon Musk for Daring to Interact With Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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-funded-group-targets-elon-musk-for-daring-to-interact-with-conservatives%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=1837084&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-->\n<p>Elon Musk was targeted by a George Soros-funded group for his daring to interact on Twitter. \u201cright-wing accounts\u201d After acquisition of the platform.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id  style=\"display:none\"> The leftist Institute for Strategic Dialogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isdglobal.org\/digital_dispatches\/friends-in-the-right-places-an-analysis-of-elon-musks-twitter-interactions-before-and-after-acquiring-the-platform\/\">Spewed<\/a> Nonsensical agitprop in Jan. 31 Blog ISD railed against Musk\u2019s exchanges with \u201cright-wing Twitter users\u201d He claimed that his interactions and correspondences with these accounts had increased his so-called &#8220;interactions&#8221; \u201cstaggering 1,690 percent after October 27, from 1.1 percent of his total interactions to nearly 20 percent after October 27, from 1.1 percent of his total interactions to nearly 20 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cright-wing\u201d ISD blacklisted accounts including satire sites <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/\">The Babylon Bee<\/a>, Psychologist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jordanbpeterson\">Jordan Peterson<\/a>Judicial Watch President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/members\/tom-fitton\/\">Tom Fitton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\">Libs for TikTok<\/a> Social media influencer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\">Ian Miles Cheong<\/a>. ISD even tried to label the noted with a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2017\/10\/18\/lefty-glenn-greenwald-slams-liberal-media-extreme-groupthink&#8221;>left-wing<\/a> journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/about\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> As a \u201cright-wing account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ISD complained that Musk was allegedly \u201csignaling to his followers and other Twitter users that these ideas are acceptable on the platform, likely inviting more hate on Twitter, and creating space for actors to spread disinformation and harmful ideologies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minimum ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=Institute+for+Strategic+Dialogue&#8221;>$2,029,863<\/a> from George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2021. The Soros brand is not in accord with denigrating free online exchange of ideas. Soros-funded organizations that are fueled by at least ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/jeffrey-clark\/2022\/11\/08\/our-democracy-soros-gave-over-80-million-groups-pushing&#8221;>$80,233,084<\/a> of the leftist billionaire\u2019s cash pressured Big Tech platforms to clamp down on election-related speech before the 2022 midterm elections. It\u2019s also telling that ISD lists <a href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/big-tech-blocked-information-harming-users-275396336-times-2022\">censorship-obsessed<\/a> Big Tech giants like Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/gabriela-pariseau\/2022\/10\/25\/google-caught-manipulating-search-buries-gop\">Google<\/a> YouTube and YouTube are co-funders of this organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The Leftist Anti-Free Speech Group complains of ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@ElonMusk<\/a> Invites &#8220;hate&#8221;\/&#8221;harmful ideologies&#8221; Interacting with the head of America&#8217;s largest government watchdog group (me), minor journalist (ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@stillgray<\/a>), left journalist (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ggreenwald<\/a>), and satire site (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheBabylonBee<\/a> ). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xy5tNIUvir\">https:\/\/t.co\/xy5tNIUvir<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomFitton\/status\/1620648207457067008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This Soros-funded group was even called Libs of TikTok. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/tierin-rose-mandelburg\/2022\/06\/01\/censortrack-tr-big-tech-repeatedly-targets-libs\">finds left-wing extremists\u2019 videos and reshares<\/a> You can find them on its pages. \u201cprolific spreader of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization attempted to justify its arbitrary claim by slamming Musk for liking one of Libs of TikTok\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1607526231204831233?s=20&#038;t=b9epyX04nUoobpfKlA_EMg\">Tweets<\/a>. \u201cPosting publicly available videos isn\u2019t harmful, hateful or dangerous,\u201d It was a tweet. \u201cYou know what is harmful though? Confusing kids about their identity, stealing childhood innocence, exposing kids to adult sexual entertainment, giving kids porn in school, and sterilizing and mutilating kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, per ISD\u2019s logic, Libs of TikTok\u2019s rebuke of the sexual exploitation of children is an example of \u201chate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Posting publicly available videos isn\u2019t harmful, hateful or dangerous. But you know what&#8217;s dangerous. You know what is harmful?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1607526231204831233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group also denigrated Ian Miles Cheong, Townhall writer Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/scottmorefield\/\">Scott Morefield<\/a> As \u201ctwo conservative journalists\u201d \u2014 that are supposedly \u201cknown to spread disinformation and amplify hateful right-wing talking points.\u201d The graphic included in the story showed Jordan Peterson and other taboo subjects. \u201cright-wing accounts\u201d Musk has a few interactions with other people from time to time.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_100_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/><\/p>\n<p>ISD\u2019s feigned outrage against so-called \u201chate\u201d  \u201cdisinformation\u201d Twitter is absurdly disingenuous. The organization did not mention the ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/06\/10\/even-leftist-atlantic-acknowledges-twitter-double&#8221;>anti-Semitic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\">Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a> or Chinese Communist Party-affiliated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/10\/05\/trump-banning-us-tech-giants-provide-platform-red\">Accounts<\/a> which have been allowed to spread their respective bile for years under Twitter\u2019s old regime.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei&#8217;s 2010 tweet, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\/status\/22815824658?s=20&#038;t=xyroEaj6QOfg3mcQpoK-DA\">It was a frenzied affair<\/a> That \u201cIsrael Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.\u201d ISD would suffer the same conniption, if Musk was interfacing with those accounts. Particularly, the CCP is currently engaging in religious- and ethnic-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xinjiangpolicefiles.org\/\">genocide<\/a> The Uyghur Muslims are being attacked by an a>https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/10\/28\/chinas-surveillance-state-has-killed-privacy\/&#8221;>authoritarian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2018\/02\/china-surveillance\/552203\/\">surveillance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/21\/world\/asia\/china-surveillance-investigation.html\">State<\/a> Was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/26\/shanghai-residents-scream-at-authorities-amid-covid-lockdown\/\">You are starving<\/a> Its own people are under \u201czero-Covid\u201d policies. Musk is a dangerous associate \u201cright-wing\u201d accounts, eh ISD<\/p>\n<p>The group continued to rant against Musk&#8217;s interaction with these so-called &#8220;experts&#8221;. \u201cprominent superspreaders of election disinformation\u201d Like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timcast\">Tim Pool<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/dineshdsouza.com\/about\/\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/a>. Strangely enough, this happens after literally smearing \u201cright-wing accounts\u201d As proliferators \u201chate\u201d  \u201cdisinformation, ISD attempted to hedge by saying: \u201c[T]he problem, however, isn\u2019t necessarily that Musk is interacting with these types of accounts \u2013 it\u2019s the type of content he is interacting with and amplifies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives are under attack<\/em><\/strong><em> Tell your representatives to demand Big Tech to abide by the First Amendment, while ensuring transparency, clarity and equality for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/about#Contact\"><em>Contact form<\/em><\/a><em>Help us hold Big Tech responsible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk was targeted by a George Soros-funded group for his daring to interact on Twitter. \u201cright-wing accounts\u201d After acquisition of the platform. 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