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2023-03-31 19:55:06 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 8521C261FEEABB1C55C673EA8D1B898462FFCD11510BE9AA4D0BACAB46B057C4
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The "George Soros wants to destroy [America/democracy/etc]" trope is a decades-old conspiracy theory based in much older anti-Semitic tropes, such as the fake "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" put out by Russia's Tsar around 1900. Now, like then, it has no basis in fact. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49584157 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-key-dates https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-george-soros/2020/08/06/ad195582-d1e9-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/us/politics/alvin-bragg-george-soros-trump.html
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