Billionaire democratic donor George Soros is funding an “army” of TikTok personalities to push Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, praise left-wing causes and trash conservatives, according to documents and social media posts reviewed by the New York Post.
From 2020 through 2021, Soros’ Open Societies Foundation donated $5.5 million to the nonprofit Accelerate Action Inc., which then funneled at least $300,000 in 2022 to another nonprofit, Gen Z for Change, which employs more than 500 “activists, organizers and creators.” The group’s activists routinely push for “climate justice, racial justice, indigenous rights and gender equality,” among other things, according to the group’s website.
The Biden Administration has routinely employed Gen Z for Change to talk up its policy goals and achievements on social media.
In one notable example, the White House hosted a number of social media personalities for a briefing on the war in Ukraine in June of 2022. 18-year-old TikTok influencer Ellie Zeiler — who boasts more than 10 million followers on the platform — then produced a video in which she talked down surging inflation and attempted to shift blame for high gas prices on Russia. “We’re getting out of a two-year pandemic. When use goes up, price goes