According to a report from the Media Research Center, Liberal billionaire mega-donor George Soros is spending big on censorship heading into the 2024 election. Soros’ media group Free Press “is looking to incorporate global pressure to push Big Tech platforms to juice their censorship operations before the 2024 U.S. presidential election,” MRC reports.
From Fox Business:
Free Press, which is not affiliated with journalist Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, bills itself as an organization that “closely watches as the decisions shaping the media landscape are made and sounds the alarm when people’s rights to connect and communicate are in danger.” However, in a new report, the conservative MRC found that Soros gave over $80 million to affiliated groups calling for “censorship” ahead of November’s critical election.
“One of the wealthiest men in the world is using his vast wealth and power to silence regular Americans ahead of the 2024 election. At a time when defending free speech is key, leftists are trying their best to shut down the voices of half of America, especially those who disagree with the radical agenda promoted by Biden, Soros and most Big Tech executives,” MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider told Fox News Digital.
MRC associate editor Joseph Vazquez reported the Soros-funded media group “is at the helm of a new push to restrict free speech online,” pointing to a recent press release as evidence.
Last month, Free Press boasted about a letter urging executives at Discord, Google, Instagram, Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Rumble, Snap, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube to keep online platforms “safe and healthy” in 2024 through six specific “interventions.”
The letter was signed by “200 civil-society organizations, researchers and journalists,” according to Free Press. The MRC found that “at least 45 of the signatories have had their coffers packed with Soros cash to the tune of a whopping $80,757,329 between 2016 and 2022 alone.”
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Liberal billionaire George Soros has spent $80 million to 'silence' Americans, Media Research Center sayshttps://t.co/krQ6Nsuyb7
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