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A new report exposes how George Soros\u2019 propaganda machine has corrupted the media<\/h2>\n

RT — Feb 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A new report<\/a> from the US-based Newsbusters has exposed a vast web of media and activist organizations, funded with millions of dollars, annually, by the billionaire George Soros. The outlet bills itself as \u201can online rapid-response vehicle for documenting, exposing, and neutralizing liberal bias in the media.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The extensive global influence of the Hungarian tycoon\u00a0is well-known, and Soros himself has admitted it\u00a0on countless occasions \u2013 \u00a0including\u00a0boasts about his efforts in Ukraine. Soros openly declared<\/a><\/em>\u00a0his role in promoting\u00a0the 2014 US-orchestrated Maidan coup in Kiev, stating at the time:\u00a0\u201cI set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia [sic]. The foundation has been functioning ever since. And it played an important part in events now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a lengthy interview<\/a> with the New York Times in October of 2019, Soros explained:\u00a0\u201cThe arc of history doesn\u2019t follow its own course [and] needs to be bent,\u201d<\/em> and he was \u201cengaged in trying to bend it in the right direction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Newsbuster report identifies the hundreds of media, humanitarian, and social justice organizations that Soros funds annually and asserts that his donations allow him to \u201cwield massive power over information in international politics,\u201d <\/em>and\u00a0\u201cmold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Who gets the money?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Newsbusters lists Project Syndicate as the biggest propaganda platform funded by the Hungarian. It styles itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s opinion page\u201d <\/em>and has a \u201cglobal audience\u201d<\/em> that includes \u201cprominent politicians, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from six continents\u201d and \u201cover 140 heads of state.\u201d<\/em> From 2016 – 2020, he funneled at least $1.5 million to the outlet. It\u00a0actively promoted abortion, criticism of Israel and pushed for global climate lockdowns during this period.<\/p>\n

The Poynter Institute is also at the top of this list, which Newsbusters condemns as \u201ca global Soros-backed Ministry of Truth.\u201d<\/em> It received $492,000 during the same period. This money was used to finance Poynter\u2019s International Fact-Checking Network, which brings together 100 so-called \u201cfact-checkers\u201d<\/em>. The network includes the controversial PolitiFact, and actively works with major social media platforms to boost their operations, while censoring alternative voices and opinions.<\/p>\n

Newsbusters argues that these initiatives in reality serve only to restrict opinions on issues like abortion, transgenderism, and COVID-19. The reports also points out that there is significant academic research<\/a> to suggest fact-checking does not stop the spread of false information online, raising questions about why so many organizations and wealthy individuals pump huge amounts of money into such entities in the first place.<\/p>\n

UK-based openDemocracy also received $1,633,457 from 2016 – 2020. The website attracts over 11 million visits per year, publishes in a variety of languages, and its content is picked up by a variety of newspapers and magazines in many countries.<\/p>\n

However, Soros isn\u2019t just funding content creators. His foundation supports a broad range of social justice activists, who often become media and online influencers. For example, in July 2021, he pledged<\/a> $100 million to advance the cause of radical feminism worldwide over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Organizations receiving cash secure major news coverage for events and activities they orchestrate on his dime, and influence public perception along the way. Soros has explicitly stated that his goal is to ensure \u201cmore women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people in positions of leadership in politics and governance,\u201d <\/em>are drawn from these recipients.<\/p>\n

The individual donations from the tycoon, his foundations, and network may appear minor based on their size, but the total volume of financial support over the entire network of nearly 300 organizations is highly significant.<\/p>\n

How does this propaganda network operate?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Newsbusters report contains numerous examples of how these allegedly independent information sources not only publish articles reflecting the US government\u2019s line, but also influence policy and statements by White House officials, and often reinforce\u00a0false information.<\/p>\n

In mid-2022, the Biden administration announced<\/a> that despite two consecutive quarters of negative growth, the technical definition of a recession, the country was not in fact in a recession.<\/p>\n

This announcement immediately followed a Project Syndicate column<\/a> by a Harvard economist Jeffrey Frankel, which argued that even if official estimates pointed to two quarters of negative growth, \u201cit does not necessarily mean that the US has entered a recession.\u201d <\/em>Then, days after the White House denied the US was in recession, the Soros-connected Politifact published<\/a> a \u201cfact-check\u201d <\/em>arguing the Biden administration hadn\u2019t changed the definition of recession.<\/p>\n

For its report, Newsbusters consulted Matt Palumbo, author of the 2022 book The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/em>. He stated that \u201cone of the biggest consequences\u201d <\/em>of Soros funding and effectively controlling major media outlets is \u201ccreating a filter on what we can see\u201d <\/em>in the general public.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s not merely individual news outlets, but journalists at highly influential Western publications \u2013 including The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, CNN, and ABC \u2013 who are influenced\u00a0by his money.<\/p>\n

Soros assets identified in the Newsbusters report,substantiated by Palumbo, help insulate him from inquiry\u00a0\u201cas reporters see him as an ally, not a target for investigation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He believes this clout means Soros \u201ccan create any impression\u201d<\/em> he wants about any issue – including the false narrative that any criticism of him is anti-Semitic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re ever covering him in a negative way, it\u2019s framed as if his critics are the bad guys for noticing.\u2026but because it\u2019s convenient for them on the left, they can do that and the media goes along with it,\u201d<\/em> Palumbo explained.<\/p>\n

Soros\u2019 latest project<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2020<\/a>, Project Syndicate published an op-ed from economist Marianna Mazzucato. She argued that if Earth\u2019s population were not prepared to accept a \u201cgreen economic transformation\u201d <\/em>truly revolutionary in scope, with huge consequences for human rights and citizens\u2019 daily lives, then the world should trial \u201cclimate lockdowns\u201d<\/em>, a completely new and untested concept in science, to counter global warming. Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were said to show they were possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions. In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency,\u201d<\/em> Mazzucato, whose research was funded by none other than Soros, insisted.<\/p>\n

That same year, Soros told<\/a> Italian newspaper La Repubblica that the COVID-19 pandemic was a \u201crevolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cwhat is inconceivable in normal times becomes not only possible but actually happens\u201d <\/em>because \u201cpeople are disoriented and scared.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

***<\/h2>\n

According to Newscasters, it remains unclear which movement Soros will fund next, what catastrophe he will exploit, or create, in order to advance his ideological and financial interests.<\/p>\n

By<\/em>\u00a0Felix Livshitz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Source<\/p>\n

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