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Philanthropist George Soros has become a favourite target of right-wing groups that support Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

July 15, 2020

How Donald Trump will try to scapegoat George Soros to win re‑election

Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University and Iga Mergler, McMaster University

As Donald Trump’s re-election looks in doubt, supporters of the U.S. president will amp up conspiracy theories about billionaire George Soros.

One of the more destructive conspiracy theories paints Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros as the puppet master of a vast left-wing and globalist elite. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)

May 27, 2019

Scapegoating George Soros: How media‑savvy far‑right activists spread lies

Iga Mergler, McMaster University and Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University

Media-savvy, far right-wing activists in the U.S., Hungary and Poland spread white nationalist politics using paranoid Soros conspiracy theories. This new global extremism is coming to Canada.

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