Clinton mega donor George Soros leads line-up of liberal billionaires who are funding Facebook’s fake news fact checker

December 19th, 2016

Awake Goy

Democrat billionaire George Soros is among investors who will bankroll Facebook’s new fake news fact checking feature

Billionaire Clinton donor George Soros is among a line-up of wealthy liberal figures who will fund Facebook’s fake news fact checker.

The 86-year-old Hungarian financier’s Open Society Foundation is listed among organizations which are backing The International Fact Checking Network, the body tasked with flagging bogus news stories to social media users, on its website.

Soros, a staunch Democrat who tried to block George W. Bush’s campaign in 2004, has given $25million to Clinton and causes dear to her.

Other donors involved in the new fact checking feature include eBay founder Pierre Omidyar who has committed more than $30million to the Clintons and their charities.

Google, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy are also funding the pilot.

The line-up feeds criticism from right-wing commentators that the new fact checking feature will be biased towards left-wing causes and could interfere with the social media feeds of millions of voters.

The feature was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday night.

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