{"id":2116290,"date":"2023-12-05T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-flooded-big-tech-censorship-pressure-group-with-millions-during-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T17:53:12","slug":"soros-flooded-big-tech-censorship-pressure-group-with-millions-during-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-flooded-big-tech-censorship-pressure-group-with-millions-during-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros poured millions into Big Tech censorship group during midterms"},"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\">20<\/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-flooded-big-tech-censorship-pressure-group-with-millions-during-midterm-elections%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=2116290&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--><h2>The \u2064Philanthropy Organizations of\u200d George Soros Pour\u200c Millions into Fighting Online Disinformation<\/h2>\n<p>The philanthropy organizations\u2063 of \u2062Democratic megadonor George \u200dSoros have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-naval-academy-students-are-learning-in-their-gender-and-sexuality-class\/\" title=\"Naval Academy students study gender and sexuality.\">made significant\u2064 contributions<\/a> \u2063to a foreign group\u2062 dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-hands-biden-admin-unfavorable-ruling-in-censorship-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Court rules against Biden administration in censorship lawsuit.\">pressuring social \u2064media companies<\/a> to combat &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and &#8220;misinformation&#8221; online in 2022, a\u2063 crucial midterm\u200c election \u2063year. Financial records reveal that Global Witness, a British\u2064 charity with \u200can affiliated research arm in Palo Alto, California,\u200d received $2.65 \u200bmillion last year from\u2064 the \u200cFoundation to Promote Open Society and Alliance for Open Society International, both part of the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations dark\u200b money grantmaking network.<\/p>\n<h3>Democratic\u2062 Dark Money Juggernaut Tides \u200dBankrolls \u2062Hamas-Friendly Protest Groups<\/h3>\n<p>These \u200bcash transfers,\u200d which have become public due to the November deadline \u200dfor nonprofit groups to\u200b file\u200b their tax \u200cforms, highlight how\u200b Soros and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perspective-stop-whining-plebs-the-dc-elite-are-also-suffering\/\" title=\"Perspective: Stop Whining, Plebs, the DC \u00c9lite Are Also Suffering\">left-wing billionaires<\/a> \u200bare providing financial support to &#8220;disinformation&#8221; trackers who have faced criticism \u200cfrom Republicans in Congress. Lawmakers, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), have intensified\u200d their \u200cefforts to \u2064prevent the United States \u2064government from funding organizations \u200daccused of censorship. This \u200bcomes after the release of the Washington Examiner&#8217;s &#8220;Disinformation Inc.&#8221; \u200bseries and the &#8220;Twitter Files,&#8221; documents provided by X owner Elon Musk to liberal journalists that shed light on the \u2063operations of the company, formerly Twitter, under\u2064 ex-CEO\u2063 Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only the sickest narcissist would direct his wealth to control,\u2064 silence, and manipulate\u2063 people who have far smaller bank accounts,&#8221; said\u200d Dan Schneider, \u200cvice president for\u2063 the Media \u2063Research Center&#8217;s Free Speech Alliance group. Schneider&#8217;s coalition\u200d members \u200ccalled on Congress to pass a National \u2062Defense Authorization Act provision\u2063 that would prohibit the \u2064Pentagon from funding NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, two state-funded organizations accused of censoring disfavored speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington \u2064Examiner\u200b reported \u200cin early 2023 that the Global Disinformation Index covertly \u2064blacklists conservative media outlets and \u200dhas received funds from the State Department, leading to congressional investigations and corporations severing\u2063 ties with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2062 is one thing\u200d to\u2063 use your\u2062 financial\u2064 resources to promote\u200c whatever cause you believe in,&#8221;\u2063 Schneider added. &#8220;It is an entirely different thing to \u200duse your money to rob others of their\u200c rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Global \u200cWitness has targeted social media companies for not taking action \u200cagainst &#8220;outright false&#8221; and &#8220;misleading&#8221; content. The organization has joined \u2062the\u2064 &#8220;Global\u200b Coalition \u200dfor Tech Justice&#8221; \u2063with 149 other groups to demand that large social media companies \u2064invest in safeguarding the 2024 elections. The nonprofit\u2062 group has a\u2063 &#8220;digital threats&#8221; tab \u200don its\u2063 website, which criticizes social media\u2062 platforms for \u2064allowing &#8220;xenophobic hate speech in South Africa&#8221;\u200b and &#8220;online hate speech directed at LGBTQI+ communities in \u2064Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;digital threats&#8221; tab also \u2062calls \u200dout Facebook for\u200d allowing &#8220;disinformation&#8221;\u2062 to spread \u200cbefore Brazil&#8217;s 2022 elections, linking to an\u2064 article \u200con a\u200b Global\u2064 Witness investigation published in Al Jazeera, which is \u200downed by Qatar, a country that funds Hamas. Global Witness \u2062notably partnered with\u2063 New York University&#8217;s Cybersecurity for Democracy initiative for an &#8220;election disinformation&#8221; study that criticized \u2062TikTok for allegedly approving &#8220;90 percent of ads featuring misleading and false election disinformation&#8221; during the 2022 \u2063midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 a March article titled &#8220;The climate divide: How \u200cFacebook&#8217;s algorithm amplifies \u200cclimate disinformation,&#8221; Global Witness condemned the &#8220;QAnon conspiracy&#8221; for its role \u2063in the &#8220;January \u200c6th \u2062Capitol insurrection.&#8221;\u2063 The article called on \u200bgovernments \u2064to legislate against the power of Big Tech to \u2063shape dangerous and divisive\u200c online narratives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It \u2064comes as\u200c no surprise that George Soros-backed groups \u200bare pumping millions\u2064 of dollars\u2063 into a \u2062liberal nonprofit \u200dseeking to censor \u2062the American people,&#8221; said Rep. Andrew \u200bClyde (R-GA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee. &#8220;Big Tech&#8217;s control over\u200d online speech remains \u200done of the most egregious forms of election \u2062interference, one that \u2062continuously silences conservative voices \u200cin\u200c the\u2064 name of combating &#8216;disinformation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to\u2064 protect election integrity and preserve Americans&#8217; constitutional\u2063 right to free speech, Congress must investigate the flow\u2064 of\u200c funds influencing these dangerous censorship\u2064 efforts,&#8221; Clyde added.<\/p>\n<p>Global \u200bWitness has\u2064 previously received over $17.8 \u200dmillion from the Open Society Foundations network \u2063between 2016 and 2020. The organization declined to comment on the 2022 grants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global Witness spokesperson Dominic Kavakeb \u200breferred the Washington Examiner to \u200cdescriptions on the Open Society Foundations&#8217; website, which \u200bstated\u2064 that \u2064$250,000 from the \u2064Alliance for Open\u2064 Society International to \u200dGlobal Witness was\u200c allocated &#8220;to \u200dpromote corporate and public accountability in the fossil fuel industry,&#8221; while $2.4 million from the \u200bFoundation to Promote\u200c Open Society was designated for &#8220;general support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Open Society \u2064Foundations spokesman\u200b Jonathan\u2063 Kaplan did\u2062 not respond to a \u2063request for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why have Republicans criticized the \u2062funding provided by these organizations and accused them of \u2062censorship in tracking \u200bdisinformation?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  And promoting false information during the 2020 US \u200cPresidential election.<\/p>\n<p>According to financial records, the \u200dFoundation to Promote Open \u2062Society and Alliance for Open\u2062 Society \u200bInternational have provided a total of $2.65 million\u200b to Global Witness. \u200cThis \u200dfunding\u200b has been used \u200dto support the organization&#8217;s efforts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-road-to-serfdom-rep-donalds-slams-biden-administration-for-pressuring-social-media-to-censor-speech\/\" title=\"\u2018The Road To Serfdom\u2019: Rep. Donalds Slams Biden Administration For Pressuring Social Media \u2018To Censor Speech\u2019\">pressuring social media companies<\/a> to combat disinformation and misinformation online, particularly in the context of\u200d the upcoming 2022 midterm \u200celections in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure\u200b of these \u200dcash transfers has sparked criticism from Republicans, who argue that \u2063such organizations involved in\u200b tracking disinformation have been accused of censorship. House\u2062 Judiciary Committee \u2062Chairman Jim Jordan has been among \u2064those leading\u200c the charge in preventing government funds from \u2064supporting such organizations. The release of the Washington Examiner&#8217;s &#8220;Disinformation\u2062 Inc.&#8221; series \u2062and\u2063 the &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; further\u2062 exposed the operations \u2063of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> and their potential biases.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Schneider, Vice \u2064President for the Media Research\u2062 Center&#8217;s \u200dFree \u200bSpeech Alliance,\u200b expressed concerns\u200d over the use of wealth to control and manipulate\u2062 people with differing opinions. Schneider&#8217;s coalition has called on Congress\u200d to pass a provision in the National Defense Authorization\u200d Act that \u2064would \u2063prohibit the Pentagon from funding organizations such as NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, both of which \u2063have been accused of censoring dissenting \u200bvoices.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner previously reported on the Global Disinformation Index&#8217;s \u200dcovert blacklisting practices\u2062 targeting conservative media outlets. The organization, which\u200d has received funds from the State Department,\u2064 has faced congressional investigations and severed ties\u200b with \u2064some corporations as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider emphasized the importance \u2063of respecting \u200dindividuals&#8217; rights and \u200dcriticized the use of\u200c financial resources to suppress opposing viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Global \u2062Witness, on the other hand, has focused its efforts on pressuring social \u200bmedia companies to take action against\u200b false and misleading content. The organization has joined forces with\u200d the &#8220;Global Coalition for Tech Justice&#8221; and\u2064 other groups to advocate for increased investment in \u2062safeguarding \u2064the integrity of the 2024 elections. Notably, Global Witness maintains a &#8220;digital threats&#8221; tab on its website, which highlights instances of hate speech and disinformation \u200con social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This tab also singles out Facebook, \u2063linking\u200d to a Global\u200d Witness investigation reported in Al Jazeera. It criticizes the platform for \u2063allowing disinformation to spread ahead of Brazil&#8217;s 2022 elections. It is worth noting\u2063 that Al Jazeera is \u2064owned by Qatar,\u2062 a country known \u200cfor its support of Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Global \u2064Witness has collaborated with New York University&#8217;s Cybersecurity for Democracy \u200cinitiative to study\u2064 election disinformation. The organization has specifically \u200ccriticized \u200cTikTok for allegedly approving and promoting \u200cfalse \u200binformation during the\u200d 2020 US Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, George Soros&#8217; philanthropic\u2064 organizations have made multi-million dollar contributions to\u2064 Global Witness, supporting\u200b their efforts in \u2064combating disinformation and misinformation online. However,\u2063 these contributions have come under \u200cscrutiny from Republicans who believe that such organizations engage \u2063in censorship and manipulation. As the battle\u2062 against online \u200dmisinformation continues, it remains critical to\u2063 strike a balance between combating false information and \u2063protecting the right to free speech and diverse opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic megadonor George Soros&#8217; philanthropy organizations have invested millions of dollars in a foreign group that aims to combat online &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and &#8220;misinformation&#8221; during the 2022 midterm election year. Global Witness is currently investigating Google, X, Facebook, and TikTok for their alleged failure to remove content deemed &#8220;outright false&#8221; and &#8220;misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2116291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2116290","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=2116290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}