George Soros became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories | The Listening Post

Hungarian-American billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has been at the centre of countless conspiracy theories. Flo Phillips sifts through fact and fiction to understand how the crusade against Soros became one of the most destructive smear campaigns of the 21st century and a blueprint for others.
Feature contributors:
Emily Tamkin - Author, ‘the Influence Of Soros’
Hannes Grassegger - Reporter & Founder, Polaris News
Marius Dragomir - Former Senior Manager, Open Society Media Program (Osf)
Credits: George Soros images courtesy of the Open Society Foundations
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[@Valour1111]

He is pure evil

[@valkry007]

He is pure EVIL

[@user-bg9gd2rs8j]

U r evil. He just wants to help people.

[@jaspajones7045]

Pure 💯 evil 👿

[@festekj]

Using billions to peddle influence.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

Lmao

[@veronicascott313]

I don't think anyone has figured out how evil yet. They have incredible PR teams that no only promote but also hide information. They probably hid quite a lot. Here in my neck of the woods I barely heard about this man until about 10- 15 years ago and slowly what I was hearing got worse. But in these other countries I find they have reported more than we get here in the land of the free.

[@ElectricCult]

Because billions can't buy you positive press...just ask Bill Gates.

[@Pepe-dq2ib]

Bill is a saint compared to this guy and Bill is not a good guy.

[@modimoonalerona143]

@@Pepe-dq2ib😂

[@Akshay-tx1dy]

Most Dengerous Man alive

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Hopefully won’t have to hear his name much longer

[@jayjones9219]

His 38 year old son Alexander took over for him and is much worse

[@angrypidgeon1714]

@@jayjones9219 how can they be any worse? :D they literally do the devil's work

[@W_Bin]

Too short. You didn't say anything about how he made his money, what he did and whether the accusations had any foundation. So nothing to make an assessment on.

[@oeognizemivgt6956]

Totally agree. But they seemed in defense of him.

[@nabeelahmed26]

All news organizations do not have any budget for investigative journalism anymore due to social media

[@olivier8264]

especially his history of co-operating with Germans in WW2.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

They said. Speculating on stocks. Same as Warren Buffett. Probably not great, but definitely not secret evil conspiracy.

[@Tech-Corner2023]

he is an investor just like other very rich people, this has never been a secret?!? And that is what they first described, how did you miss??

[@jamesnick3782]

Conspiracy theories = the truth

[@rafiq1472]

... Constant love for all ....💜💙💚💛🧡

[@jeremyrogers8828]

Villian. Pure evil. And his spawn offspring

[@susim4503]

Siding with fascists?

[@jeremyrogers8828]

@@susim4503 Youve made 3 comments totalling 12 words. Ya, youre real. Hahaha

[@susim4503]

@@jeremyrogers8828 WTF? Why don't you answer the question?

[@Tech-Corner2023]

@@jeremyrogers8828 your guys conspiracy maniacness is crazy...

[@tyrone2937]

​@@susim4503 yes and

[@christinenguyen8528]

This ain’t no conspiracy, these are pure facts

[@ampm5899]

The key word is London ))) “he moved to London” there you go. So he is connected to the City of London. Thanks for clarification.

[@mariahewitt9787]

He can never enter his birth Country Hungary, ever again.

[@josephbingham1255]

He broke the Bank of England.

[@GabrielPettier]

is that bad?

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

@@GabrielPettier no, and he's nearly broken the American dollar, he has done an excellent job

[@elizabethrobbins4110]

Evil....evil...evil...

[@spyder2782]

Pretty sure no billionaire is really a good guy

[@maddawg4866]

I've done the research. Have you ?. He's Evil..

[@SigmaRankers]

Evil of the top. He makes the satan look like an amateur.

[@LadieKadie]

Evil Demon!!!!!

[@kinggbull]

What's funny is everything that has been said about this monster is true

[@TWE_2000]

Such as?

[@xcel5203]

You're pretty gullible when you believe everything.

[@kinggbull]

@xcel5203 yea the justice system is not destroyed right an the border is not wide open right. Yea I don't believe my lying eyes

[@katharinecantwell9620]

Question anywho labels themselves a philanthropist. Giving people need no labels their true giving is what speaks loudest.

[@Paa22]

It interesting that the stories of he working with nazis to caught Jews for execution is never said

[@maddawg4866]

Yes, that's what I thought too.

[@xcel5203]

Stories ?

[@chernorizetzhrabar1313]

Yes, he admitted it in an interview here on youtube. He counted as a job, yet very evil job.

[@CamJames]

@@chernorizetzhrabar1313 George Soros is a Hungarian Jew who hid his identity to escape the Nazis. y'all sound ridiculous.

[@Lynnianaa]

Gotta love how the comments on this video prove the point of the video. Fascists fall so easily for hasbara.

[@Eusantdac]

lol so true

[@mariahewitt9787]

He dobbed in his friends to the Nazis.

[@BrendaHeeligan]

He’s been helping Palestinian refugees for years, the right wing just hate that. Especially the Zionists.

[@Tech-Corner2023]

hahah! EXactly! I was going to write the same video! Today's people so easy to get them on board and stubbornly stick to stupid propoganda! They even missed the point of the video totally!!

[@wewuzkangz2505]

George literally sold his own kin for a few shekels, it's in his own book.

[@triilastudio6301]

You are the best English news network.

[@frankifa7005]

Left out the part where he worked for the nazis to snitch on his fellow jews

[@ahmedsabir1181]

1/ rothschild family 2/ blackrock company 3/ rockefeller family topic video banaen sir 🌍⁉️

[@nithin909]

I think he needs to fund NGO's in Qatar to promote democracy 😊

[@psycholist4170]

Good luck with that Soros

[@oussamabayar7477]

Al Jazeera English is different from the Arabic one. The English version in the US and it has a very different ideological leadership from that in Quatar.

[@MusaMecanica]

Never knew much about Soros, I just assumed that if Fox news hates him, he can't be that bad.

[@mariahewitt9787]

Soros is a Hungarian Jew, he revealed the hiding places of his fellow Jews, and we all know what happened to them, after.

[@mariahewitt9787]

He is Evil.

[@mariahewitt9787]

And comments disappear if you tell the truth about a member of the Tribe.

[@marcef2940]

The incident in which Newt Gingrich was censored by Fox News when he was denouncing that Soros provenly finances the electoral campaigns of district attorneys who then release criminals is well known. At that moment the host asked him why he brought Soros into the conversation, while another FN employee added that Gingrich was lying. The show was interrupted for seconds and, then, FN allowed Gingrich only an instant to respond. He could only say: "It's verboten (to talk about Soros here)?". Even at his most successful time on FN, Tucker Carlson only made just few and brief small-mouthed comments about Soros. So Soros defenders lie about that too. Something else: Orban did not come out of nowhere to reject Soros. He was awarded a scholarship by Soros to be one of his bishops in Hungary, but when he learned of Soros' destructive plans against Western civilization, particularly its Christian roots (that roots bother some media too), he rebelled and began to denounce him. And it is not anti-Semitism. Soros declares himself an atheist and acknowledged that he collaborated with the Nazis against the Jews in World War II. But it is the excuse that his defenders first use to justify and victimize him.

[@JustMichael51083]

You have a big brain😂

[@emal2170]

Follow the money, not MSM and not Al Jazeera.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Dr. Evil

[@al_adin]

any enemy of Israel or natenyahu is on the GOOD side

[@aizac91]

He isn’t an enemy of Israel he is just causing chaos. I’m baffled how Al-Jazeera didn’t mention he is the one who caused the Southeast Asian financial crisis back in mid-90’s. My then finance minister Anwar Ibrahim now Prime Minister of Malaysia called out Soros.

[@aizac91]

He isn’t an enemy of Israel he is just causing chaos. I’m baffled how Al-Jazeera didn’t mention he is the one who caused the Southeast Asian financial crisis back in mid-90’s. My then finance minister Anwar Ibrahim now Prime Minister of Malaysia called out Soros.

[@Kruse1]

No he's one of them.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

lol, NO.

[@Tech-Corner2023]

@@Kruse1No he isn't!! He is a socialist, that is why they deal with him!

[@ivaylomoravlev2144]

But this time in Ukraine he make biggest mistake

[@psycholist4170]

Philanthropist, Soros, don’t make me laugh!

[@namelesswarrior4760]

DEMON

[@mewe9020]

Is this puff piece about SOROS or what??

[@CLEFT3000]

His name is in the headline so assuming yes

[@charlziedouglas-mo7uc]

Am I the only one who laugh at this?😂

[@pablorobles1277]

The biggest problem with Mr. Soros is that he fails to recognize his own intellectual fallacies. Idealism alone creates more problems than it solves. An Ideal without a pragmatic anchor rejects any other competing Ideal creating an unhealthy animosity with those you disagree with. Mr. Soros well known desire of a cosmopolitan world free of inequities and limits on progressive ideas while disparaging capitalism is ironic and somewhat hypocritical considering that he himself is a product of capitalism.

[@mollysheridan7134]

Lol! Yep, nobody calls it X 😂

[@yoursubconscious]

when evil arrogant ppl. support other arrogant a-holes. Sad world. Kids, life is not what you think.

[@Hajnik79]

Yet, he still wears his head!🤔

[@veronicascott313]

It's not really philanthropy when you make money off it. Giving to capitalize needs a truer name

[@nabeelahmed26]

He was right about Brexit

[@NatTurner1555]

The commentator states soros' open society vows to build vibrant and inclusive democracies which is no more than camouflage for the true purpose: establishing the capitalist accumulation model which pits the international general populous in a struggle against exploitation and poverty. Cognizant of the inherent contradictions of capitalism, its deliterious causes, soros learned to understand the philosophy of philanthropy so as to ease the misery of capitalist dominance wherever it reared its conscious ugly head. In other words, soros is a hegelian strategist unbeknownst to most unsuspecting peoples the world over. Only in surface politics can soros appear to be this cool philanthropist who cares about the ills of society. The basic modus operandi of open society is to infiltrate foreign countries to OPEN them up to the capitalist ideology with anglo-america at the head. It becomes simple when one decides to investigate for oneself. And by the way, it was the cia that built the construct behind the expression "conspiracy theory" to deflect from CONSPIRACY FACT.

[@mampettaappu588]

Just wait for Ajit dowels unknown hitting squad....🤣

[@CuriosityforTruth]

Indian Gen Z will cry that day... afterall he is spending millions for Pappu with Dhruv Rathee

[@CHMichael]

How much did he donate for this?

[@davehud2552]

Can't call him by hero or villain but I suppose mischievous & stubborn☺️. He likes making rumbles that's it, And I like him he's so sweet🤗❤️

[@reclaimingmypower]

The man is no longer on this planet.... Justice prevails.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Wrong on both counts.

[@reclaimingmypower]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 If he is not then he is under protection to speak like a bird. @@CuriousCrow-mp4cx

[@marileedent8499]

Evil. Turned on his own..

[@puffpuffgive100]

Evil evil

[@AnBreadanFeasa]

Hugely informative

[@slavkagough3023]

“ FACTS”

[@shahnaz5986]

Very disappointing clip on G. Soros. No mention of his past money making on the backs of people in S.E. Asia and the financial crisis it caused at the end of 1990s. No such action is without political intents.

[@tried1998]

He is a good man ❤❤

[@terriej123]

I call it twitter

[@maddawg4866]

??

[@zaheerdimala8625]

Great man...did alot to stop bad guys and help the poor.

[@SixerIverson04]

No

[@lastbruh62]

He was the top visitor to Epistien's Island

[@EduardoNomas-zv4ms]

I really missed hearing Soros opinion on all this… sad.

[@Tommyweeziy]

Why doesnt the daily news cover this, the world is ending, im telling you

[@SUBASHKUMAR-wz8zx]

He was biggest source of international news for Godi media 😀

[@olivier8264]

the ghost of Soros never dies, continues through his family. N.B. this is post-mortem review.

[@embibelayele1729]

Coalition of Fascists against Soros. And if Tucker Carlson speaks evil of someone, rest assured that person is an angel.

[@madmaxrerisen]

Trust Tucker ffs.

[@kme5925]

Well said

[@BrendaHeeligan]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@madmaxrerisen]

@@kme5925 poorly said, because it does not stack up. Think...

[@zionne2716]

If thats you basis for a foundamental opinion is highly over generalized and lazy.

[@zionne2716]

Propaganda machine getting you too now jazeera?

[@GabrielPettier]

Or maybe, just maybe, you are wrong and give too much trust to some other sources you follow.

[@ivoperic3992]

Son of evil 😈.

[@jackieflores2464]

Anyone against evil is good in my book! Other billionaires like him do not like him and the Jewish do not like him... Lol!

[@nocentii]

After WWII, the world said "never again". Up until the early 2000s, I couldn't realistically see a return to the scenes of the 1930s/40s. Now? It's already started. Remember all the essay questions about the people of Germany, Italy, and Japan that you wrote in school? How do your answers stack up against people today? The past 10 years has shown fascism establishing solid roots at the highest levels across western countries. The next 10 years will show the beginning, or continuation, of significant policy changes in these countries, including the introduction/return of policies long considered immoral/inhumane in those countries. It'll be presented as being tough but fair and unsightly but necesssary to gain control over chaos; A "return to decency and purity" - *purity may be substituted for any word that's, politically-speaking, a synonym. What we're watching now is how far fascism can spread, and how fickle people are. Remember COVID deniers, anti-vaxxers, and how people looked at 5G. Even for those who accepted COVID and vaccines, and didn't have conspiracy theories about Bill Gates, look how many were willing to sacrifice the vulnerable "for the greater good". Isolating and discarding the vulnerable... that's familiar. The Great Replacement Theory has never had more support or active propagandists, and the rhetoric is slowly starting to crack and show the "traditional" rhetoric: It's no longer "People who were born here", or "People of X heritage". It's now "the X race". That change of rhetoric matters, because when someone in Ireland says "they are replacing the white race" on national television, the "taboo" of fascist thinking has been broken, the makeup that fascism has used to cover its rhetoric has been wiped away, and that rhetoric will now be mainstream - actually mainstream - in the next 5-10 years. These are all variations on a theme. The same theme we saw in the 1930s/40s. Much like climate change, it's no longer about prevention, but limitation and response. That response isn't some series of individual fanatical attacks, but will develop much like the resistances seen during the 1930s/40s. This time though, I'm not sure who the "allied" powers will actually be. The largest countries not to fall to fascism have been slowly demonised - rightly and wrongly - as fascism has risen, so it's difficult to see who will provide the military intervention when it's needed. If this comment gets any replies, they'll likely be either: - Discrediting: "loony left", "what drivel", OR - Flipping the narrative: "we're not fascists, the left are - free speech!", OR - Confirmation: Celebration of fascism's success in the past 10 years in particular, and excitement about what comes next. Note, there is no "Denial" option for fascists there, because there is no denying it. There's no spin needed when talking about the contemporary rise of fascism. The whole political spectrum is fully aware of it, and *it's* in denial about how far fascism going to get. That's why it's getting so far, and why "never again" and "unadulterated free speech" are incompatible trains of thought.

[@chrischris5510]

I read that whole post so I can understand the paranoid left side of it. If you look at Soros in total, his game plan has always been the same, from UK to Thailand. Profit on destabilizing. His organization doing the same thing across Europe and the rise of the exact same problems in all of these countries is not a coincidence. New york city is literally about to become bankrupt and it goes even deeper. because in the Origin countries Soros is funding ads lying to people, getting them to leave their cheap homes, simple lives to come to some great utopia that does not exist. The rise of far right totalitarianism in Europe came off the back of failed globalist policies. The right doesn’t exist in a bubble, if you move so far left society fails and people are lining up for bread like in Argentina, that country, every time will look for a solution. What that solution looks like depends on the state and level of suffering. Hitler was looking to rebuild the holy roman empire, Putin is trying to restore the soviet union. Maybe, and i really don’t believe this. George Soros and his kind are trying to speed up the utopian world of open borders and one world currency, etc. All i see is him sowing so much chaos it’s forcing us to the far right. The solution is easy, centrist politics. Metered immigration, a nordic country approach. But going full on what soros has infected into the biden admin is only going to lead us to having another WW2 style dictatorships. And this time we have nukes, so good like with the idea of “allies” trying to remove anybody from power. We can’t even make a dent in North Korea. Bernie Sanders is opposed to open borders for a reason, he knows his social programs will fail and bankrupt the state if the borders are wide open. Look what it’s done to the US 10 million illegals in 4 years and we have a state deploying its military in a stand off with the federal government. We’re on the brink of civil war over Soros influence starting 10 years ago.. if that is not chaos, I don’t know what is.

[@silviagiulietti4925]

I think this piece was a bit superficial

[@maddawg4866]

No it's bullshit.

[@11buster1000]

If he went to bora bora, the blue lagoon would be brown in seconds.

[@alitharealist4730]

He is a ghoul..

[@kforest2745]

Nobody had to say anything about him he spoke as a sociopath would when he gave an interview regarding “if it wasn’t me it would be someone else.” Nobody’s ever asked him a real question though, so ask him if he believes he provides for his family.

[@MrTomad51]

Great piece on George Soros

[@josefspikepeterka2125]

Dóros is undertaker of european prosperity and lifestyle.

[@AYVYN]

I pray every day that he pumps my stock

[@Feechlamana534]

"Arch Scumbag" works fine (and hes a "you know whoo")

[@Flashh2124]

credit to al jazeera.

[@concernedsouthafrican1828]

You cannot sugar coat Soros......

[@olivier8264]

I think twitter should be re-named "twitex"

[@dionysise5008]

He hates humanity clearly

[@UBETUBEME]

You are what you believe Tik Tok😂

[@olgadeweger3805]

How did he make his money, what did he fund, and did he do what he has been accused of, and why did they kick him out of Russia and China. Research that before you make an opinion. If I make a video that praises Hitler and say he is a victim of conspiracy theories you would also tell me first research before you have an opinion.

[@gaylandbarney2231]

that you ask this question makes me finally unsubscribe...........you're as relevant as C.N.N.

[@brunskiyoski]

good, go to your echo chamber

[@xcel5203]

Finally?

[@gaylandbarney2231]

@@brunskiyoski brilliant ....you've destroyed me with your ORIGINAL comment , echoed daily by those who repeat what they've heard , over and over again

[@user-bg9gd2rs8j]

God bless Soros.

[@onofrioscriba]

He is the devil for the people who have a vested interest. He is the angel for the people who are most poor and suffering people. But I am dissapoined by the fact that he stands by Israel.

[@user-bg9gd2rs8j]

No he doesn't he has criticised Netanyahu many times.

[@antivaccineproimmunity1043]

Villain 100 per cent

[@Tech-Corner2023]

he supports Palestine!! Of course since you are an addict to the conspiracy theories looking at your antivacine nickname, not surprised!

[@robot8598]

What evil he done against his own people when he was young is mind-blowing Google will tell you he's not banned in 6 countries including his own but that's a lie he is also banned in India

[@snarveien1853]

Problem with his Philanthrophic organization is it cannot separate itself from politics. It is impossible for his organization not to interfere with the politics of a country & when it operates, it always cross the line of a country's sovereignty and its own democracy. If the people has chosen their leaders and Soro's organization does not like it, it will conduct smear campaign of that politician also. His organization is full of contradiction. For them, it is only Democratic if they like the election results. lol... In addition, his organization is a foreign entity for many countries, that is why it is morally and politically wrong. Thus, he is labeled as evil.

[@alijarrah97]

A good philanthropic man

[@maximilianogame5287]

he's already dead,trust me

[@aisha_kafir]

It's not true

[@aaap3875]

So in 2024 it looks like that HUngarian dude was right.

[@StandWithIsraelForever]

Here are all the facts that we need: Al Jazeera is making this video....I wonder who is funding and profiting from this in Qatar and what business they have with Soros the KAPO

[@joecunningham7111]

He is really old we may not have to put up with his social engineering much more. God bless America

[@jayjones9219]

Are you kidding, his evil 38 year old son Alexander took over for him and is much worse

[@user-bf2vd9uv7k]

Villain

[@Stevejoesofficial]

Imagine how much soros payed for this piece of “ journalism “

[@VictorSanchez-kx5hb]

. a new Power is rising. Against it the old allies and policies will not avail us at all. There is no hope left in Elves and dying Númenor. This then is one choice before you, before us. We may join with that Power. It would be wise, Gandalf. There is hope that way. Its victory is at hand; and there will be rich reward for those who aided it. The Lord of the Rings

[@uhuruamplified2074]

Satan

[@moustaphaadiallo3140]

Nice

[@MacrosFTW]

How much did Soros pay for this puff piece?

[@gshell2520]

absolute👹👹👹👹👹👹👹💯

[@user-pf1fc3wg8n]

George Killuminati Soros

[@universaltruth9988]

Al jazeera beware wht if this guy funding israeli military 😂😂😂😂 then u cry 😂😂😂

[@dqlevn]

A devil in disguise!

[@zampone]

Did Soros pay for this reportage?

[@2nearmenot2hearme]

The devil in flesh