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0 pointsjandrese7y ago0 comments

Soros donated some amount to a PAC that advocates for minority rights, and this means he hates Facebook. Got it. I'm sure he's in their offices every week telling them how to attack Zuckerburg.

He is definitely not a fan of the way social media turns people's lives into a product to be sold on the open market, but that doesn't mean you can ignore criticism of said social media companies.

But the narrative that Facebook's PR firm is pushing is that you should ignore criticism of Facebook because it's just George Soros pulling the strings. It's a dog whistle.

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XCabbage7y ago· 2 in thread

> he hates Facebook

> he's in their offices every week telling them how to attack Zuckerburg

> you should ignore criticism of Facebook because it's just George Soros pulling the strings

I didn't say any of these things, nor does this Guardian article quote Facebook or their PR company as having ever, at any point in history, said anything that even implies a single one of these positions. Either you have some other source, in which case I invite you to share it, or you are criticizing a perspective entirely of your own invention.

> advocates for minority rights

> social media turns people's lives into a product to be sold on the open market

None of this has anything to do with my comment.

jandreseOP7y ago

What's the conspiracy theory then?

XCabbage7y ago

That George Soros funded critics of Facebook.

Or at least, that's what I interpreted the parent comment that I originally replied to as characterizing as a "conspiracy theory". I didn't see what else it could mean given that that (according to the article, true) claim is literally the only claim about Soros that the article says Facebook's PR company made.

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