American billionaire George Soros founded the Open Society Foundations in 1993 to financially support the building of democracies globally. But some social media users claim his actions went beyond philanthropy in Ukraine.
A Facebook post shared March 14 shows various images of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"George Soros acknowledged in an interview with CNN that he actively contributed to the overthrow of former Ukrainian President ... making way for Zelensky (sic) who was born to Jewish parents and is the sixth and current president of Ukraine."
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The post generated more than 300 interactions in less than a week. Similar posts have spread widely on Facebook. But the claim is false.
A CNN spokesperson told USA TODAY the claim is false. USA TODAY only found records of one Soros appearance on CNN, and in it he didn't mention any former Ukrainian president in that interview.
USA TODAY reached out to social media users who shared the claim for comment.
The claim that Soros made such an admission on CNN is false, according to Lauren Bobek, a CNN spokesperson.
The only appearance Soros has made on CNN was on May 25, 2014, with journalist Fareed Zakaria, Jonathan Birchall, a spokesperson for the Open Society Foundation, told USA TODAY in an email.
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