Left-wing billionaire George Soros criticized Facebook on Thursday, saying the company is working to reelect President Trump in return for presidential protection.
Soros called out what he characterized as a mutually beneficial relationship, suggesting the company's help for Trump will be rewarded because the president "will work to protect Facebook."
Soros has been mostly critical of Trump but touted the president's efforts on China, a compliment framed as "the greatest — and perhaps only — foreign policy accomplishment" of the administration, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
In an interview on the Davos sidelines on Wednesday, Trump said, "I met [Zuckerberg], and he told me that I’m No. 1 in the world in Facebook."
Asked about Facebook's decision not to fact-check political ads, Trump demurred. "I’d rather have him just do whatever he is going to do," Trump said. "He’s done a hell of a job, when you think of it." The president's campaign has long touted its own data-centric efforts, using the campaign off-season to build what allies say is a formidable operation.
Soros, 89, spoke Thursday at the Davos summit. "I think there is a kind of informal mutual assistance operation or agreement developing between Trump and Facebook," he said. "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."
A Soros-linked liberal advocacy group spent a record $48 million in 2019, $40 million more than the combined 14 years prior. Soros is a major funder of Democratic Party politics and advocacy work.
Soros's remarks Thursday followed a pattern of criticism of the social media giant. Last year, he called for increasing regulation of technology companies, while in 2018, he compared Facebook to a gambling operation. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ignited controversy after she asked staff to look into whether Soros had a financial incentive to criticize the company.
Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is a pronounced Soros critic, claiming Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was "controlled" by the liberal billionaire.
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