Soros: Facebook is conspiring to reelect Trump

“Facebook will work together to reelect Trump, and Trump will work to protect Facebook so that this situation cannot be changed, and it makes me very concerned about the outcome for 2020.”

Facebook is a platform where conspiracy theories are rife. But the latest conspiracy theory puts the social network at the center of it. As Bloomberg reports, billionaire magnate George Soros used his time at Davos to claim that Facebook is conspiring with Donald Trump to make sure the U.S. president is reelected in November.

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Focusing on money above all else was one of my worst mistakes as a CEO

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You’ll never guess Airbnb’s hottest destination for 2020. Really.

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Narratives about modernity

If we give an isolated community access to the internet, very quickly, the quality of life will improve. Time will be saved, research into proven solutions will produce value, and people will become connected to a larger population. Those connections will lead to productivity and learning. And, then, soon thereafter, they will become less happy. Not because they’re worse off, but because the dominant media narratives that arrive exist to make them feel insufficient, inadequate or simply jealous at how green the grass is over there. Our narrative defeats our surroundings, every time.

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