X owner Elon Musk has put the propaganda powerhouse that America’s most notorious billionaire George Soros runs on full blast, and he is right to do so.
Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen criticized in a Jan. 9 X post, “Why does the mainstream media never talk about how George Soros is a threat to democracy?” Musk didn’t pull any punches in his response, “Because they are his lapdogs.”
This is not hyperbole. MRC Business research has repeatedly exposed the ungodly fortune that Soros has poured into influencing the global information sphere. This insulates Soros’s grossly anti-American agenda from media scrutiny,
Because they are his lapdogs https://t.co/KZA5gISCaH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2025
In 2023, a major MRC Business study found that Soros had poured a whopping $131 million into at least 253 media outlets and organizations across the globe between 2016 and 2020 alone. A number of these groups wield massive power over the flow of information in international politics, putting an exclamation point about how much power Soros wields over the information diet digested by multiple citizenries on a daily basis. The journalism groups that Soros supports have the ability to mold public opinion on practically every continent and in many languages.
Syndicated radio host Mark Levin used MRC Business’s findings to call on Congress to investigate Soros during a Nov. 10, 2023 segment on his show: “I have been urging the House Republicans to begin to look into George Soros and what he’s done to this country; what he’s doing to this country; these front groups that he has.”
For example, Project Syndicate, which Soros poured $1,532,105 into between 2016 and 2020, is a very powerful global propaganda mill that spreads leftist drivel from some of the most powerful figures in global politics, including Soros himself. Project Syndicate boasts how its commentaries were published 18,621 times in 156 countries in 2023, worked with at least 543 media outlets around the world, and was published in 66 languages. The extremism promoted by the outlet is nothing short of disturbing. Project Syndicate pushed a piece by a Soros-funded economist who argued the need for a global “climate lockdown” if the world didn’t undergo a radical green economic transformation. It also published propaganda by former Iranian president and anti-American extremist Hassan Rouhani, who threatened further conflict with the U.S. in his 2014 column for Project Syndicate if an agreement on his country’s nuclear program wasn’t reached.
Another Soros-funded giant, the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network, became notorious for working with Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Instagram to censor conservative speech online. It controls global fact-checking for at least 100 organizations. Even taxpayer-funded NPR, another leftist outlet that boasts a weekly audience of 42 million across platforms, is a recipient of Soros cash.
Include Soros’s recent purchase of radio giant Audacy as an addendum and you have a gargantuan Soros media empire dedicated to swirling around his dark “open society” vision for the world. This is even more terrifying in light of Soros’s self-admitted god-complex, “‘It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,’” as The Independent reported him saying in 1993.
The 2023 MRC Business study also found at least 54 media figures tied to Soros (e.g. anchors, columnists, editors, news executives and journalists) who are prominent individuals in news and activist media, in addition to some of the most powerful media conglomerates in the United States and abroad. These included figures like NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, The Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee, IFCN director and former PolitiFact Editor-In-Chief Angie Drobnic Holan and Bloomberg News co-founder Matthew Winkler.
Musk is absolutely on point for bringing Soros’s media empire to the public’s attention. It’s about time Congress does the same.
