Social media users are once again spreading false claims about billionaire George Soros.
"Isn't it weird how the Left keeps calling Trump a 'Nazi,' when the only person on today's political scene who actually COLLABORATED WITH REAL LIVE NAZIS is the Left's Sugar Daddy, billionaire George Soros?" reads a Nov. 6 Instagram post. It features a picture of Soros.
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The post garnered more than 200 likes in one day. Similar iterations have been shared on Instagram and Facebook.
The claim is false. Soros and his family, who are Jewish, escaped persecution during the Holocaust by using false identity papers. There is no evidence Soros aided the Nazi regime, which ended when he was 14.
USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment.
USA TODAY previously debunked the claim that Soros was a Nazi in a separate fact-check.
Soros founded the Open Society Foundation in 1993 to help fund democratic and human rights groups around the world. Laura Silber, a spokesperson for the foundation, told USA TODAY via email that the claim he aided Nazis is "100% false."
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