Soros Group Denounces Facebook Over ‘Reprehensible’ Campaign
- Soros’s foundation chief responds to NYT aricle on Facebook
- Facebook denies pushing Soros conspiracy to discredit critics
Patrick Gaspard
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Billionaire George Soros’s philanthropic network ripped into Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg after the New York Times reported that the social media company pushed to involve the financier’s name to discredit its critics.
Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, said he was “shocked to learn” from the article published Thursday that Facebook had hired a company that allegedly tried to undermine criticism of Facebook’s handling of hate speech and Russian propaganda on its platform by tying it to the 88-year old philanthropist, who’s vilified by nationalists around the world for his advocacy of liberal causes.