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Social media users (here), (here), (here) are sharing a post that misleadingly suggests Soros supports DeSantis as a presidential candidate: “Trump gets praise from Tucker Carlson. Why is that?”Responses to the posts include comments such as: “Is Soros funding DeSANTIS??? DeSantis ‘is likely to be the Republican candidate’ for president in 2024 - a prediction, not an endorsement,” Silber said in an email. Reuters found no record of Soros publicly praising DeSantis (tinyurl.com/mrne9esp), (tinyurl.com/ywhaab6t). There is no evidence that Soros publicly praised DeSantis.
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Memes shared on Twitter (here) and Facebook (here) (here) read: “’I’ve made my life’s mission to destroy the United States. I hate this country and I hate all of the people in it,’ George Soros, Newsweek 1979.”Laura Silber, a spokesperson for Soros-funded Open Society Foundations told Reuters that Soros had not “ever expressed such sentiments.”“We can absolutely confirm that George Soros gave no such interview to Newsweek in 1979,” Silber said via email. Soros was indeed interviewed by the outlet in 2009, but no such quotation about his “life’s work” is included in the report by The Australian. There is no public record of George Soros saying this to Newsweek in 1979. The quotation has been debunked before and a spokesperson for Soros told Reuters he never made such a statement.
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