How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online
How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online
By Brad Heath, Matt Wynn and Jessica Guynn - MSN NEWS
This is the life of a lie.
Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States. Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too. But one stands out: a conspiracy theory that liberal billionaire George Soros, a Jewish immigrant, is paying the migrants to make the journey – or even orchestrating it.
Members of Congress and the president’s son both repeated it. Conservative celebrities, too.
It also may have resonated in darker places. Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to Soros and other prominent critics of President Donald Trump, dwelled at length online about conspiracy theories involving the Hungarian-American philanthropist. Robert Bowers, charged with killing 11 people worshiping in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, used his social media accounts to post extensively about the caravan, including circulating an image of refugees in Guatemala purportedly climbing into a truck with a Star of David on the side.
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By Brad Heath, Matt Wynn and Jessica Guynn - MSN NEWS
This is the life of a lie.
Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States. Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too. But one stands out: a conspiracy theory that liberal billionaire George Soros, a Jewish immigrant, is paying the migrants to make the journey – or even orchestrating it.
Members of Congress and the president’s son both repeated it. Conservative celebrities, too.
It also may have resonated in darker places. Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to Soros and other prominent critics of President Donald Trump, dwelled at length online about conspiracy theories involving the Hungarian-American philanthropist. Robert Bowers, charged with killing 11 people worshiping in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, used his social media accounts to post extensively about the caravan, including circulating an image of refugees in Guatemala purportedly climbing into a truck with a Star of David on the side.
READ MORE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-a-li...
Hey Steve, if you read this article, maybe this will answer some of your questions Cesar Sayoc.
Steve, do you see how this LIE grew? If not, reread this article with an open mind, if you can, can you do that?
The evening of Oct. 17, a Republican member of Congress posted a video on Twitter of what he said was people in Honduras handing out small sums of money to migrants.
“Soros? US-backed NGOs? Time to investigate the source!” he wrote.
Rep. Matt Gaetz would later concede that he was mistaken about where the video was shot (it was Guatemala). But by then his message had metastasized, spreading far beyond the 153,000 people who follow the north Florida congressman’s tweets.
Now this Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz now wants to call what he did a Mistake, when he knew damn well, what he was doing in the first place was to fire up the troops, He knew damn well, what he was doing Steve and the results, Bombs was sent to other Americans and other Americans was killed by the same thing that you are trying to protect.
Don't you see what is happening here Steve?