George Soros conspiracy theories

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Hungarian-American billionaire businessman George Soros is the subject of a number of antisemitic conspiracy theories. Veronika Bondarenko, writing for Business Insider in 2017, said: "For two decades, some have seen Soros as a kind of puppet master secretly controlling the global economy and politics." The New York Times describes the allegations as moving "from the dark corners of the internet and talk radio" to "the very center of the political debate" by 2018. Professor Armin Langer has noted that Soros is "the perfect code word" for conspiracy theories that unite antisemitism and Islamophobia. Soros conspiracies first emerged in Russian circles involving "Western anti-Kremlin civil society across the Eastern Bloc from Tbilisi to the Baltic". These conspiracies involved inverting Soros's strengths into weaknesses, a common Russian disinformation technique. Soros, a Holocaust survivor, was falsely accused of being a Nazi collaborator. As a supporter of Eastern European democracies, Soros...

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