'Deeply misguided and dangerous': George Soros group slams Facebook as a threat to democracy in open letter to Sheryl Sandberg

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November 15, 2018 6:26 PM

Soros' foundation called on Sandberg to "remediate the damage done" after a NYT report revealed Facebook's efforts to link Soros to the rise of anti-Facebook groups.

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George Soros' philanthropy group has called on Facebook and Sheryl Sandberg to "remediate the damage done" after a New York Times report revealed the company's efforts to link Soros to the rise of anti-Facebook groups that have cropped up following the company's many scandals over the past two years.

The open letter written by Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros' Open Society Foundations, accused Facebook of "underpinning our democracy" with its "deeply misguided and dangerous" behavior.

The letter from Soros' foundation was sent out Wednesday night after the Times story was published. Gaspard penned the note to Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, who he asked to meet with so the social media platform could "remediate the damage done."

Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew, Holocaust survivor, and prominent liberal donor that has been the focus of far-right conspiracy theories with anti-Semitic overtones, has also been a vocal critic of Facebook and other social-media platforms in the past.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in January, Soros accused major internet companies, notably Facebook and Google, of becoming "ever more powerful monopolies" that were using their dominance of the market for "nefarious" purposes.

Read the full letter that Gaspard sent to Sandberg in response to the Times piece:

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