June 3, 2020
THE TRUMP BRAND:
There are now 500,000 negative tweets about George Soros every day. . (BEN SALES, JUNE 3, 2020, JTA)
Right-wing conspiracy theorists are increasingly claiming that George Soros is funding recent protests and riots across the United States in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing.According to the Anti-Defamation League, "aggressive language towards Soros has exploded on social media" this week. Negative tweets about the billionaire Jewish philanthropist rose from 20,000 per day on May 26 to 500,000 per day on May 30.The posts, according to the ADL, mostly allege (without evidence) that Soros is funding riots across the country, and that he is backing Antifa, a loose network of anti-fascist activists whom President Donald Trump has blamed for the violence, also without citing evidence.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 3, 2020 1:11 PM