Fox News

=== Glenn Beck's comments about George Soros ===
During [[Glenn Beck]]'s tenure at Fox News, he became one of the most high-profile proponents of [[George Soros#Conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories about George Soros]], a Jewish Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist known for his donations to [[Modern liberalism in the United States|American liberal]] political causes.<ref name="Lee-2018">{{Cite news |url=https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/why-the-conspiracy-theories-about-george-soros-dont-stack-up |title=FactCheck: Why the conspiracy theories about George Soros don't stack up |first=Georgina |last=Lee |date=February 15, 2018 |work=Channel 4 News |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111151312/https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/why-the-conspiracy-theories-about-george-soros-dont-stack-up |url-status=live }}</ref> Beck regularly described Soros as a "puppet-master" and used common [[anti-Semitic]] tropes to describe Soros and his activities.<ref name="Lee-2018"/> In a 2010 three-part series, Beck depicted George Soros as a cartoonish villain trying to "form a shadow government, using humanitarian aid as a cover," and that Soros wanted a one-world government.<ref name="Selk-2018">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/05/30/unpacking-the-george-soros-was-a-jew-killing-nazi-conspiracy-theory-that-roseanne-barr-spreads/ |title=Debunking the George Soros-was-a-Jew-killing-Nazi conspiracy theory that Roseanne Barr spreads |last=Selk |first=Avi |date=May 30, 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 31, 2018 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125024930/https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/05/30/unpacking-the-george-soros-was-a-jew-killing-nazi-conspiracy-theory-that-roseanne-barr-spreads/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Mirkinson-2010">{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/11/adl-beck-soros_n_782420.html |title=ADL Condemns Glenn Beck For 'Offensive,' 'Horrific' Attacks On George Soros (Video) |last=Mirkinson |first=Jack |date=November 11, 2010 |work=HuffPost |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-date=December 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219030519/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/11/adl-beck-soros_n_782420.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Beck promoted the false and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Soros was a [[Nazi collaborator]] as a 14-year-old in Nazi-occupied Hungary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/ |title=Was George Soros an SS Officer or Nazi Collaborator during World War II? |first=David |last=Emery |date=November 28, 2016 |website=Snopes |access-date=October 17, 2019 |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102212019/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Beck also characterized Soros's mother as a "wildly anti-Semitic" Nazi collaborator.<ref name="Selk-2018"/> According to ''The Washington Post'': "Beck's series was largely considered obscene and delusional, if not outright anti-Semitic", but Beck's conspiracy theory became common on the right-wing of American politics.<ref name="Selk-2018"/> Amid criticism of Beck's false smears, Fox News defended Beck, stating "information regarding Mr. Soros's experiences growing up were taken directly from his writings and from interviews given by him to the media, and no negative opinion was offered as to his actions as a child."<ref name="Mirkinson-2010"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/us/12beck.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/us/12beck.html |archive-date=January 2, 2022 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Glenn Beck's Remarks About George Soros Criticized by A.D.L. |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=November 11, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 31, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Roger Ailes, then-head of Fox News, dismissed criticism levied at Beck by hundreds of rabbis, saying that they were "left-wing rabbis who basically don't think that anybody can ever use the word, Holocaust, on the air."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/nov/18/roger-ailes-fox-news-npr-nazis |title=Fox News chief Roger Ailes apologises after describing NPR as 'Nazis' |last=Adams |first=Richard |date=November 18, 2010 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=May 31, 2018 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230073300/https://www.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/nov/18/roger-ailes-fox-news-npr-nazis |url-status=live }}</ref>