Public Nostrich Announcement via grok:

The meme portrays George Soros as a shadowy “puppet master” using billions to secretly control media, elections, protests, and a radical leftist agenda to undermine America.

Key claims and reality:

• Wealth ranking (“27th richest”): False. As of December 2025, Forbes ranks him ~#495 globally with ~$7.5 billion (after donating >$32 billion lifetime).

• Quote (“main obstacle… is the United States”): Real, but from 2004–2006 criticizing Bush-era foreign policy (e.g., Iraq War unilateralism), not a call to destroy America.

• Funding network: Partially true but vastly exaggerated.

◦ Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) and PACs have donated hundreds of millions to progressive causes since 2016: major support for ACLU, Planned Parenthood, racial justice groups, voter mobilization (MoveOn, Color of Change), immigration reform, and reform-minded district attorneys (~$40–50M, influencing dozens of races).

◦ No direct funding/control of major media (CNN, NYT, WaPo, etc.), the Democratic Party, BLM’s main organization, or defunct groups like ACORN.

◦ Indirect ties exist through grants to allies, but most “tentacles” in the chart are fabricated or wildly overstated.

• Overall “puppet master” conspiracy: Overreach. Soros is a transparent, major progressive donor (comparable to conservative billionaires like the Kochs or Musk on the right). His spending legally advances open society goals—criminal justice reform, democracy, civil rights—but does not amount to omnipotent control, election rigging, or paying protesters. The diagram style and scapegoating echo antisemitic tropes, even if unintended.

In short: Real influence on left-leaning causes? Yes, significant. Sinister global cabal imposing a radical agenda? No—meme mixes facts with distortion for conspiracy appeal.