Fake News, the ace up the George Soros’s sleeve

Why the American billionaire George Soros engaged so many resources in the fierce battle against fake-news? At first glance, it is an attitude worthy of all respect, but Soros’ warrior’s attitude hides something else. More specifically, the American billionaire’s involvement in the fake news war has a well-defined purpose.

His actions are targeting especially the uncomfortable articles about the George Soros-sponsored groups as well as about the US left. At the same time, George Soros’s shadowy backstage games aim to censor the internet and Facebook. In the Romanian press, these kind of actions were pointed out for the first time by flux24.ro, in February this year.

The quoted source wrote at that time about a “hackathon” event hosted in Sibiu, whose purpose was that the so-called false news should not be distributed via Facebook. Digi24 and HotNews are two media tools that support internet and Facebook censorship, giving the example of the so-called fake news promoted by some sites. According to Flux24.ro, the two media entities backed the creation of a blacklist of Romanian websites, where they included media that does not support their views, together with the tabloids and news sites promoting unverified information.

Factual is a group in Romania that collaborates on the project and was created by Funky Citizens. Elena Calistru, who has been working for Soros’ foundations for many years, and Codru Vrabie, another character linked to the American left-wing billionaire, appear in the NGO. Recently, Funky Citizens hired more journalists for this project. This group supports one of Soros’s dear projects: homosexual marriages, recalls flow.24.ro.

Returning to the American billionaire’s plan, Breitbart, an influential US conservative site, reveals that Facebook’s policy to eliminate the so-called fake news is a project funded by George Soros and other left-wing businessmen. Information that was also broadcast by US television station FOX News.

There is even a Romania subsidiary, controlled by George Soros’s people. IFCN, the structure that deals with it, is hosted by the Poynter Institute of Media Studies. A Poynter Institute’s summary search finds that IFNN Poynter is openly funded by the Open Society Foundations Soros, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google and the National Fund for Democracy. IFCN is also funded by the Omriyar Network, owned by the eBay billionaire founder, Pierre Omidyar. The Omidyar Network has entered into a partnership with the Open Society and has provided grants to third parties that are funded by Soros. Tides is one of the largest left-wing donors in the US.

Open Society Foundation also funds Rise Project. “In June 2013, the Open Society Foundations’ Media Program awarded $ 24,900 for a series of training sessions in the field of investigative journalism and data highlighting, as well as a cross-border collaboration project in Central and Eastern Europe and not only “, says the 2013 Rise Project activity report.

Another important donor of IFCN is the Craig Newmark Foundation, the charity organization founded by Craiglist Founder Craig Newmark. Monday, just days before announcing the partnership with Facebook, Poynter issued a press release stating that Newmark donated him a million dollars.