Billionaire George Soros’ legacy of disruption is reported to include millions in donations toward a controversial initiative to help President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
Despite officials throughout the government sounding the alarm on the Chinese Communist Party’s influence and control of the social media platform TikTok, Democrats have embraced the propagandist powers in an effort to sway young voters.
Now, according to a report from the New York Post, it appears that Soros’ Open Society Foundation is among those helping to foot the bill for Biden’s army of influencers.
A review of tax filings found that the billionaire’s foundation had “shelled out $5.5 million to the nonprofit Accelerate Action Inc. in 2020 and 2021 — which in turn gave at least $300,000 in 2022 to another nonprofit, Gen Z for Change, which boasts a network of 500 ‘activists, organizers, and creators.'”
Earlier this week, the group’s founder Aidan Kohn-Murphy took to the platform to reaffirm how Gen Z for Change is “unequivocally supportive of Medicare for all, the Green New Deal, Palestinian liberation, a plethora of progressive policies that a vast majority of Gen Z supports.”
@aidanpleasestoptalking Revealing the truth behind @Gen-Z for Change #bernoutdeadendersforhalfasshasthtagwhining #genzforchange ♬ original sound – Aidan Kohn-Murphy
According to his talent booking agency, All American Speakers Bureau, Kohn-Murphy “has overseen partnerships with the White House, the DNC, Fair Fight, Made to Save, March On, Climate Power, Accountable Tech, and more.”
Earlier this year, amid Biden’s own threat to ban TikTok for government employees, the president’s team had made the move to hire a bevy of influencers like those with Gen Z for Change in an attempt to shore up support among low-information voters.
“A measure of the importance the White House is placing on its digital strategy,” Axios reporter Sophia Cai had said at the time, “Rob Flaherty, who leads the efforts, has been named assistant to the president — the same rank as the White House communications director and press secretary. Four full-time WH staffers are focused on influencers and independent content creators.”
So much for a ban. Team Biden to hire 100s of TikTok stars to help indoctrinate ‘young voters’https://t.co/F3eW51p1XM
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) April 10, 2023
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference, had herself been a target of the group’s messaging when a digital marketing strategist for Gen Z for Change had accused her of spreading “neo-nazi and white supremacist” messages after a shooting took place at a Buffalo, New York supermarket.
“Elise maybe you should keep your mouth shut,” he had said in a video shortly after the tragedy.
Stefanik reacted to the report that also highlighted the group’s deputy executive director’s drumming up pro-abortion talking points and told the New York Post, “George Soros is funding the next generation of far-left activists on a platform that is beholden to the [Chinese Communist Party].”
According to the newspaper, the group’s backer, Accelerate Action, had received approximately two-thirds of its $8.3 million in ’20 and ’21 via Soros.
“We’re trying to reach young people,” Deputy White House Chief of Staff Jen O’Malley Dillon had stated when Biden’s TikTok strategy had been announced, “but also moms who use different platforms to get information and climate activists and people whose main way of getting information is digital.”
Soros’ financing of the administration’s social media influence campaign comes amid an ongoing legal battle over alleged First Amendment violations by the federal government after agencies were said to have “coerced” Big Tech in ways that led to censorship and suppression of stories impacting the public.
A preliminary injunction limiting communications between the government and social media companies, which was supported by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was temporarily paused by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who granted an administrative stay that would keep the injunction from taking effect until Sept. 22 while providing the prosecution in Missouri v. Biden until Sept. 20 to respond.
The Post also noted that Gen Z for Change had been briefed by White House officials on the situation in Ukraine as early as March 2022 and that they had been invited to the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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