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As protests \u2013 still largely peaceful, but increasingly marked by violent confrontations, looting and vandalism — continue in response to the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, right-wing pundits and an ideologically diverse crew of conspiracy theorists have alleged that\u00a0George Soros<\/a>\u00a0has played a role in fomenting the chaos.<\/p>\n Aggressive language towards Soros has exploded on social media sites like Twitter, where a sample assessment showed that negative tweets about Soros rose from 20,000 per day on May 26 to more than 500,000 per day on May 30.<\/p>\n The vast majority of these tweets allege that Soros is paying protestors to riot, and that he funds\u00a0antifa<\/a>. A smaller number claim that he plans to radicalize African Americans in order to undermine society and enable the globalist takeover of America, while some go so far as to claim that George Floyd\u2019s death was actually a false flag deployed by Soros in order to precipitate the current crisis.<\/p>\n This comes as social media was already rife with Soros\u00a0conspiracy theories<\/a>\u00a0alleging he is responsible for the spread of COVID-19, and that he will use efforts to fight the virus using contact tracing to implement mass surveillance.<\/p>\n Numerous right-wing pundits and activists are now alleging that Soros is funding the protests following the murder of George Floyd. Prominent among them is Candace Owens, who\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cAs he did with Antifa, Democrat George Soros has these thugs on payroll. He is funding the chaos via his Open Society Foundation.\u201d DeAnna Lorraine, the Republican candidate for Congress who ran unsuccessfully against Nancy Pelosi in March 2020,\u00a0asked her 261k followers<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cbring attention to this very organized takeover\u201d of the country by getting #sorosgate and #soros to trend on Twitter.<\/p>\n When President Trump tweeted (about the protests), \u201cIt\u2019s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don\u2019t lay the blame on others!,\u201d former game show host Chuck Woolery disagreed. \u201cIt\u2019s George Soros,\u201d\u00a0he tweeted<\/a>. David Wohl, Trump surrogate and father of\u00a0disinformation activist<\/a>\u00a0Jacob Wohl,\u00a0agreed<\/a>, saying, \u201cSoros funded rent-a-mobs no doubt.\u201d Actor-turned-right-wing-Twitter-pundit James Woods, referring to a \u201cnight of savage anarchy\u201d on May 30,\u00a0wrote that<\/a>\u00a0\u201c[when] George Soros rules our streets, we are doomed. #TakeAmericaBack.\u201d<\/p>\n Others used more conspiratorial and sinister language to describe their theories about Soros\u2019 involvement. Posts in several anti-Soros Facebook groups recirculated a 2016 article claiming that a leaked memo revealed that Soros planned to \u201cuse Black Lives Matter to federalize U.S. police.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNetwork marketing\u201d entrepreneur Laire Lightener\u00a0wrote to her 84k Facebook followers<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cGeorge Soros #1 goal in life is destroy America so that globalists can take over. He funds the #BLM movement & riots happening across the nation every time the globalists decide they need a new race war started.\u201d Numerous posts on social media have cited a fabricated 2014 \u201cquote\u201d from Soros: \u201cI\u2019m going to bring down the United States by funding Black Hate groups. We\u2019ll put them into a mental trap and make them blame white people. The Black community is the easiest to manipulate.\u201d<\/p>\n Some go so far as to say that the death of George Floyd, which precipitated the protests and rioting of recent days, was a false flag event orchestrated by George Soros. One lengthy post on a Facebook group with 25k members claimed, \u201cthe Floyd event was staged\u2026with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti-deep state sentiment from common people, that have already been psychologically traumatized by Covid 19 fears\u2026 You can draw your own conclusions, but this appears to have all the earmarks of George Soros. Please open your eyes!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Although the vast majority of Soros-related conspiracy theories do not mention his Jewish heritage, the concern remains that they can serve as a gateway to the antisemitic subculture that blames Jews for the riots. This type of content can be found on mainstream platforms; a Twitter user wrote, \u201cGeorge Soros is paying for this he is a Jew America bows to the Jew [sic],\u201d while another tweeted, \u201cAntifa are on the payroll of the Jewish financier George Soros who often uses these paid thugs to intimidate any opposition towards the status quo that he and his Zionist allies have set up to control us.\u201d Yet another claimed, \u201cSoros is every bit the subversive, parasitic conspirator these people make him out to be. The problem they always neglect to mention is the fact that he\u2019s a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n Similar sentiments can be found on sites frequented by white supremacists and antisemites. White supremacist Kyle Hunt wrote that the Jewish-controlled \u201cZOG\u201d (Zionist Occupation Government<\/a>) \u201care starting a race war so people don\u2019t rally against ZOG\u201d in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.\u00a0 A poster on 4chan claimed, \u201cthe jews are just playing with us with their rent a crowds at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n An anonymous post on 8kun theorizes, \u201cthe Marxist democrat kikes that run twitter and faceberg used their social engineering platforms to whip this up and organize these riots. Soros used his subversion NGO shock troops to organize and direct the riots. Niggers burned down and looted their own cities with the encouragement of billionaire kikes, which will make them poor and cause crime to increase in their shitholes long term. Everyone who is rational will move away and all that will be left will be an economic desert poverty like Compton California, a once thriving crime free city.\u201d<\/p>\n