[ April 19, 2024 ]
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18 out of 20 members on Facebook’s fact-checking board have ties to George Soros
An investigation reveals that conservatives may have serious cause for concern over Facebook’s oversight board and its power to censor right-leaning content
By: John Cody, Remix News,, August 11, 2020
Story continues below advertisementFacebook claims its new oversight board, which has the authority to allow or remove content from the platform, is diverse in thought and opinion, but an investigation has determined that 18 out of the 20 members of the board have ties to liberal billionaire George Soros or groups he supports.
Sheryl Attkisson’s investigation for RealClearInvestigations revealed that 18 out of 20 members of the “independent” board “collaborated with or are tied to groups that have received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.”
The Open Society Foundation is perhaps the foremost and most well-funded progressive organization in the world. Soros has donated billions to various left-wing causes for decades, and most recently donated over $200 million to Black Lives Matter and another $50 million to elect former Vice-President Joe Biden in the United States.
A recent New York Times op-ed from the oversight board claimed, “The board members come from different professional, cultural and religious backgrounds and have various political viewpoints.”
“Some of us have been publicly critical of Facebook; some of us haven’t,” the authors of the op-ed wrote, adding that “Facebook committed to creating an independent oversight body that will review Facebook’s decisions about what content to take down or leave up. Over the past 18 months, more than 2,000 experts and other relevant parties from 88 countries have contributed feedback that has shaped the development of this oversight board, which will have 20 members (ultimately growing to 40) and is scheduled to become operational this year.”
Other news articles have played up the diversity and global reach of the board, but the revelation that 90 percent of its members have ties to Soros or his organizations appears to bolster complaints from conservatives that they are being censored by Big Tech.
As an example, the RealClearInvestigations report notes that Evelyn Aswad, a U.S. law professor, is a recipient of a grant from a Knight Foundation that has partnered with Open Society Foundations. Furthermore, Aswad once said that corporations should align their “speech codes with international human rights law” and be guided by “international law on freedom of expression.”
One of the four co-chairs of the board, Columbia University law school professor Jamal Greene, used to be an aide to Senator Kamala Harris. Both Columbia University and Harris have financial ties to the Soros family. On his Twitter, Greene also posted several anti-Trump tweets.
Another co-chair, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, is the former socialist Prime Minister of Denmark, and is a trustee at the International Crisis Group funded by the Open Society Foundation. Moreover, both Soros and his son Alexander are members of the International Crisis Group board.
Other members have received substantial sums of money from the Open Society Foundation.
Catalina Botero-Marino, a co-chair of the Facebook oversight board, is a dean of a Colombian law school that received $1.3 million over two years from Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Botero-Marino also serves as an expert on the panel of Inter-American Dialogue, which receives partial funding by Soros’ Open Society Foundations. As RealClearInvestigations notes, Botero-Marino serves as an expert for Columbia University’s Global Freedom of Expression Project, also funded in part by Open Society Foundations. Finally, Botero-Marino Served was on the board of Article 19, which obtained $1.7 million from Open Society Foundations.
Board member Maina Kiai is the director of Human Rights Watch’s Alliances and Partnerships Initiative, which received $100 million from Open Society Foundations. Kiai was also a founding member of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, which has taken $615,000 from Soros.
Nighat Dad, the founder and executive director of the Digital Rights Foundation, also receives money from Soros’ Open Society Foundations. The Digitls Rights Foundations is a project of Artists at Risk Connection, which in turn is a project of Pen America, which is sponsored in part by Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
Dad was also on the “board of the Soros-funded Dangerous Speech Project” and an “adviser on Amnesty International’s Technology and Human Rights Counsel, funded in part by Soros’ Open Society Foundations.”
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63 Comments
3 years ago
Facebook has lost so much credibility. So passe’
3 years ago
Reply to
Jeanne Ballard
Thanks for the info!
They should advertise on conservative sites. I would love nothing more than seeing FB dissolve for lack of following.
3 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
I believe there are some God loving people who are working on a social media site
3 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
There is MeWe. I am on there.
They don’t have a share button for them at the bottom of Stories yet.
The same with the Great America app which was created for Trump Supporters.
3 years ago
TRUMP BEAT SOROS TO PULP! HE CALLING OUT OBAMA RIGHTLY AS IDENTIFIED BEING AS THE ANTICHRIST.
Chad considering embassy in Jerusalem
“I do not only want to mark the relations between our countries, but to promote them even more,” Netanyahu said.
Opening an embassy in Jerusalem came up in meetings between Israeli officials and a senior delegation from Chad, which arrived in Israel on Tuesday to promote ties between the countries.
The delegation is led by Deputy Director of Chad’s civil cabinet Abdelkerim Idriss Déby, who is also the son of Chad’s President Idriss Déby, and also included the head of Chad’s intelligence agency, Kogri Ahmed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Déby and Ahmed, and discussed opening embassies in each other’s countries, including the possibility that Chad’s would be in Jerusalem, according to the Prime Minister’s Office statement.
They also spoke about possible cooperation on cybersecurity, water and agriculture.
“I do not only want to mark the relations between our countries, but to promote them even more,” the prime minister said.
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and other members of the National Security Council took part in the meeting.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/chad-considering-embassy-in-jerusalem-641526
3 years ago
Reply to
geirsmith
Bashar Assad is the Antichrist. http://www.isawthelightministries.com/comparison.html
Obama is an antichrist, one of many. http://www.isawthelightministries.com/obama.html
Notice one has a capital A and one a common a. I did this on purpose to diffrentiate between the two persons.
3 years ago
Reply to
Kareem Knight
Obamas real name is Barry Parks.
Trump said he pulled off the greatest con in history with his fake birth certificate.
The first black POTUS was the greatest criminal in history.
Why aren’t you standing up and yelling it?
3 years ago
Reply to
geirsmith
I already stated he’s an antichrist. If I find proof he’s Barry Parks I will state that as well.
3 years ago
Reply to
Kareem Knight
When you find proof say Islam’s the worst thing existing in the world.
Say the Koran must be corrected. All criminal passages such as those that say Muslims must kill all so-called “Infidels”, Jews, Christians etc…those passages must be marked as obsolete such as the Bible has also been marked as having obsolete passages.
Koran’s got to get up to speed with modern times.
Say Muslims must stop i nbreeding at a rate of 40% in all Muslims countries …. says Wikipedia (look at “Cousin Marriage” /and it’s at 70% in Pakistan.)
Muslims are backward and i nbred. Jihad comes from madness of cousin marriage in the brain. It causes suicidal madness. Bad vibe there. Forbid all intermarrying worldwide…
3 years ago
Reply to
geirsmith
Islam is bad. If you are muslim and decide to give up that belief system you are threatened with death by your friends and family. That cannot be a good thing.
3 years ago
I’m just SHOCKED!
Facebook has become more dangerous than Soros!
Zuckerberg makes me ashamed to be Jewish.
https://banliberals.com/2020/09/02/why-reprehensible-facebook-is-actually-fakebook/
3 years ago
Reply to
BanLiberals
Don’t be ashamed to be Jewish. Be ashamed that this douchebag/scumbag/ socialist/communist is one of us.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
Obstruction of Justice. Brennan lied about this, and concealed his illegal activities from investigators. It is forbidden for the CIA to investigate US citizens. The FBI must handle that.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules2
I will never understand how the Senate confirmed a Mohammedan. A literal traitor at the head of the CIA?!
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
Soros was born Jewish, but he collaborated with the Nazis during WW2 because he was a teenage boy and it felt good to feel powerful.
After we won, he decided to create his own Power.
3 years ago
Soros wants total control through others.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
He’s been stoking the racial fires & violence in South Africa since 1979, so don’t leave us out.
3 years ago
Anything evil and you’ll find Soros behind it or part of it.
To keep people unaware, censorship is needed.
It’s been going on for while.
This is how the LEFT sees it –
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I can’t tell the difference SOROS? Zuckerberg? Zuckerberg is younger so he mist be Soros 2.0!
Neither are not long for this world.
3 years ago
Nobody with a functioning brain cell uses fb anymore!!!!!
3 years ago
Until the last few years, sports journalists were the most blatant lockstep leftists that existed. Now they’ve been overtaken or at least equaled by social media giants.
3 years ago
many are foreign natls. why do foreign natls. get to tell Americans what speech is acceptable on their own domestic infrastructure?
3 years ago
Reply to
kikz2
Facebook now has service World-wide.
Most Countries do not have a First Amendment to protect their Religion or Speech.
So he can truthfully say they have a wide range of beliefs and still get away with his Censorship because he is complying with International Law, not the US Constitution!
3 years ago
Reply to
Pamela Landon
y, fb is global.. however, Intl Business Law states legal environment/system of the ‘host’ country is prime.
FB is US (domestic) based, begun on OUR infrastructure and ntwks both IT and Utility, and must – by current intl business standards of law constructed in the US, conform to our country’s laws, wherever it does business. or else be found in violation, no matter what its globohomo board of cancel buffoons say, it must abide US law at home or abroad.
3 years ago
So facebook is fair and balanced huh? Just another reason to not have a facebook account and be brainwashed.
3 years ago
I am sure that Zuckerberg goes no further than Soros lets him. So….what will Soros tell Zuckerberg to do next?
3 years ago
George Soros…WANTED.. DEAD OR DEAD
3 years ago
George Soros…WANTED.. DEAD OR DEAD
3 years ago
Where is James Bond now that we really need him – to do a professional hit against this Ian Flemming type villain?
All kidding aside, I just do not understand why the US Government is allowing this man to operate with wanton abandon. Does he own the Justice Department too? The FBI? The CIA? What does he not control?
3 years ago
Reply to
polly
Well he is 7 days older than dirt but I just want to see him nabbed before he dies of natural causes.
3 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
There seems to be a coordinated effort to expunge the monstrous record
of George Soros and his association with Hitler’s SS from the internet.
Too bad so many copied his Bidenesk bragging interviews and continue to
re-post them.
3 years ago
Where is James Bond now that we really need him – to do a professional hit against this Ian Flemming type villain?
All kidding aside, I just do not understand why the US Government is allowing this man to operate with wanton abandon. Does he own the Justice Department too? The FBI? The CIA? What does he not control?
3 years ago
SOROS = ZUCKERBERG
3 years ago
I don’t believe it. You simply didn’t find the ties he has to the other two.
3 years ago
Have’nt you heard? media matters –
3 years ago
This should concern all of us. This parasite actually thinks he is going to take over this country. BS. He needs to be under investigation for funding the violent unrest going on in this country. He is the major financing behind BLM that is causing most of the unrest. He is suspected of being the money behind antifa as well. His finances should be frozen and his ass investigated.
3 years ago
Reply to
LL
Even though this billionaire scumbag evil snake needs to be convicted and hung, sorryarse is controlled by the very rich elite, rothchilds and so on…..A couple of years ago sorryarse put 18 billion into the demonicRAT war chest, for them to use, to destroy America and you’re seeing it begin and not even in full force yet. JUST WAIT, YOU AIN’T SEEN NUTHIN YET!
3 years ago
George Soros worked hand and hand with the NAZIS, he is the one that should have been sent to the OVEN.
3 years ago
Reply to
Robert Kahlcke
I second that,
George Soros, as less than teenage son of a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, collaborated with the Nazis, selling out his Jewish brethren for a part of the bounty collected by the Nazis.
He made Millions in the collapse of the British Pound after WWII.
3 years ago
Ain’t it “FUNNY” how navigating the browser for some good conservative commentary so often ends up with: “Safari couldn’t open the page ‘because the server stopped responding’”? I believe that these occurrences are evidence of network censorship. The perpetrators need to be apprehended and put behind bars.
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GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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Richard William Faith
central Florida
3 years ago
Reply to
Kareem Knight
I just clicked on one of their links; how surprised I am not: “Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding” came up! Just one more of the many instances of evil censors throttling conservative communication. Let those evil censors get prison terms of 200 years NOT commutable even by death, so that for at least 100 years after their death their rotting remains will be serving as highly visible public examples!
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Richard William Faith
central Florida
3 years ago
Reply to
Richard Faith
They’re working with others to hide the truth. Switch to qwant.com for search.
3 years ago
George Soros once bragged in an interview he hated America, would never stop until he destroyed her and owned every American politician. As a Jew he was never eligible to be a member of the Nazi Party but assisted his uncle ratting out Hungarian Jews who were then sent to concentration camps, the vast majority subsequently exterminated in Hitler’s “final solution”. Their reward for those innumerable acts of despicable treachery was a cut of the wealth of those they condemned. When asked if he felt any regret he said working for the Nazis was the best time of his life and if he hadn’t done it someone else would have. There seems to be a coordinated effort to expunge the monstrous record of George Soros and his association with Hitler’s SS from the internet. Too bad so many copied his Bidenesk bragging interviews and continue to re-post them.
3 years ago
i stopped using Facebook in 1999 after using it for about one year as I was looking for somebody from my past, didnt find her, and started noticing all these other people, that “I may know” on the right side of the screen and after figuring out what that I was about, I deleted my account.
It boggles the mind that a Billionaire, thanks to the USA, wants the USA destroyed and wishes for communism to take over.. I just dont understand that.
