From the Washington Free Beacon: The left-wing philanthropy funded by George Soros, Open Society Foundations (OSF), bankrolls a British nonprofit that works to censor conservative news websites and social media companies, including through a plot to “kill” Elon Musk’s X by pressuring advertisers and investors to boycott the company.
OSF gave $250,000 last year to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for “general support,” according to the Soros charity’s grant database. The CCDH, under the guise of stopping “the spread of online hate and disinformation,” has pressured social media companies’ investors and advertisers to censor supposed “disinformation” or other content it deems to be offensive.
The organization, founded by former Labour Party operative Imran Ahmed in 2018, has also pressured tech companies to pull advertisements from the conservative websites the Federalist and the Daily Wire over allegedly racist content.
The grant, which has not been reported, could resurrect a longstanding battle that Musk has waged with both the CCDH and Soros. Musk has accused Soros of “crimes against humanity” and funding groups involved in violent protests across the country this year. And he has called the CCDH a “criminal organization” and said he was “going after” the group’s donors over its efforts to harm X’s finances.
Last year, the CCDH quietly organized a campaign to “kill Musk’s Twitter” by pressuring advertisers to cut ties with the company, according to memos published by Racket News. The CCDH, which the watchdog group Capital Research Center calls a “UK-based censorship advocacy group,” met with 16 congressional offices to discuss Musk’s lawsuit against the organization, and held “policy engagement” meetings with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). The nonprofit also lobbied American policymakers toward the creation of an “independent digital regulator,” according to Racket News.
President Donald Trump has called for an investigation into allegations that Soros and his son, Alexander, funded violent riots across the nation.
The Trump administration reportedly has Ahmed at the top of the list of people they are considering for visa cancellations. Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff of British prime minister Keir Starmer, co-founded the CCDH alongside Ahmed.
The Free Beacon explains that the CCDH urged Google to ban ads from the Federalist and Zero Hedge in 2020, over comments on the articles related to the George Floyd protests which the CCDH claimed were racist.
In January 2023, the CCDH ripped into Google for allowing ads to run on the Daily Wire, over users searching for terms that were negative about Soros.
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— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 18, 2025
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