Kworld trend / Is George Soros dead, did George Soros die today in Hungary? It seems to be an internet hoax.
did george soros die
News on Twitter has indicated that George Soros died earlier today in Hungary, aged 92. But no news confirmed the said. A tweet from Anti Woke stated “BREAKING: According to media reports, George Soros died earlier today at the age of 92 in Hungary”.
No one is sure about this speculation on social media, but we will keep you posted…
Update: It appears this is an internet hoax started by “Anti Woke”, as speculation spreads, there has been a follow-up Tweet confirming our suspicions that Gorge Soros is in fact alive and well.
He does have a valid point, “stop believing what you read on the internet”.
Twitter has become more open since the Musk takeover, freedom of expression is very important, but it can also be a breeding ground for lies and misinformation. This whole story was started by a single tweet that spread like wildfire across the internet and was picked up by a dozen news outlets, including News in France.
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor, business magnate, philanthropist and political activist.
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He is one of the world’s most successful investors and has a net worth of $8 billion as of February 2018. Soros is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his big bet against the British pound in 1992.
Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a classical pianist. Soros fled Hungary during the Second World War and moved to London, where he studied at the London School of Economics. After graduation, he worked for various banks before moving to New York City in 1963.
In 1970, Soros founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers. The fund became one of the most successful hedge funds in history, making billions of dollars. He also began investing in companies such as Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs.
Soros is a major contributor to liberal causes and supports progressive-liberalism. Political candidates around the world, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He is also the founder of Open Society Foundations, which promotes democracy and human rights worldwide.
Who is george soros wiki
George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz, 12 August 1930) is a Hungarian-. American businessman and philanthropist. As of March 2021, he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion. Having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society. Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. Forbes called him the “most generous giver” (in terms of percentage of net worth).
Born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary. And moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. He studied at the London School of Economics and received a BSc in philosophy in 1951. And then a Master of Science degree, also in philosophy, in 1954.
Soros began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks in the United States. Kingdom and then the United States, before starting his first hedge fund Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from his first fund provided the seed money to start Soros Fund. Management , his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed Quantum. Fund and was the main firm Soros advised. At inception, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management. And as of 2011, it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros’s total net worth.
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Soros is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short selling of. US$10 billion in pounds sterling. That made him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Based on his early studies of philosophy, Soros formulated the General Theory of Reflexivity for capital markets, which he believes gives a clear picture of asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value differences used for shorting and exchanging shares.
