The George Soros conspiracy
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Why one financier is the target of a global conspiracy theory. Manuela Saragosa speaks to the BBC's Mike Rudin, who made a recent documentary on the Soros conspiracy, and to Joe Uscinski, associate professor of political science at the University of Miami - and an expert in conspiracy theories. And the BBC's Dhruti Shah speaks to David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, the company trying to debunk fake news for the last 25 years.
(Photo: Anti-Soros placards during a political demonstration is Macedonia in 2017, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa. |
| 0:07.1 | Coming up, fake news, conspiracy theories and the business of debunking them. |
| 0:12.1 | I often liken what we do to housework, as in it's never actually done. |
| 0:18.4 | You know, it's just you do it. And then once you're finished, you |
| 0:21.7 | immediately start over again. Do social media and the internet make things worse? |
| 0:27.1 | The only thing to blame here are humans. I mean, this is a part of human nature. There's |
| 0:30.8 | something very natural about this. If we'd shut off the internet tomorrow, I have a feeling |
| 0:35.9 | we'd have more conspiracy theories rather than |
| 0:38.0 | less. That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:44.4 | The world is never short of conspiracy theories. A quick trawl of the internet will supply |
| 0:49.9 | you with plenty. But there's one conspiracy that's global and has come back with a vengeance |
| 0:55.4 | since the election of President Trump in 2016. At its core is George Soros, a Jewish-Hungarian-born |
| 1:02.8 | multi-billionaire philanthropist who's given away $32 billion. The BBC recently broadcast a documentary |
| 1:10.0 | about the many conspiracies that involve him |
| 1:12.6 | and those spreading them. Some of the world's most powerful politicians warn of his influence. |
| 1:24.0 | They're called globalists. They're like a man. |
| 1:28.5 | Allegations are multiplying of secret Soros plots, flooding countries with migrants. |
| 1:35.3 | Perhaps Soros others may be funding this. |
| 1:38.2 | Orchestrating violence on the streets of America. |
| 1:41.5 | Billionaire George Soros bankrolls the resistance. |
| 1:44.6 | And masterminding a hoax bomb plot to bring down the president. |
| 1:49.5 | The whole thing is a complete fantasy. |
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