There's been a huge spike in the use of George Soros' name on Twitter in the last 12 hours. 212,000 tweets since last night. This is because many MAGA and QAnon accounts are suggesting Mr Soros has paid #GeorgeFloyd protesters in Minneapolis to start a "race war". Let's see who

The three countries where Mr Soros' name has been tweeted the most: The US, the UK and Brazil. The same three countries that had the highest share of #ObamaGate tweets a fortnight ago: https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1259895749422321665

Let's look at the most retweeted posts. Conservative commentator Candace Owens leads the way. There's also DeAnna Lorraine, who ran a primary in California's 12th Congressional District (Nancy Pelosi's seat) in March

I'm particularly interested in this viral tweet by a QAnon follower. "A friend of mine who is an officer in Minneapolis said Soros flew in paid agitators to cause chaos." Follows the exact same formula we've been seeing the last few months. A friend of mine says...

A group of "Soamlis" paid by Mr Soros were in Minneapolis. "Civil war" on behalf of Mr Soros. George Floyd's death was a "Soros-sanctioned hit". We've seen all of these conspiracy theories about Mr Soros before...

@alistaircoleman wrote about it in 2018. Mr Soros has been a bogeyman for so long. Portrayed as a sinister puppet master in cahoots with a liberal elite who funds "globalist" plots that are diametrically opposed to the interests of ordinary voters https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46073979

Interestingly, Bill Gates' name is only second to Mr Soros in the tweets I looked at. Mr Gates is another bogeyman and target of conspiracy theories, but mostly related to Covid-19 and vaccines

This is still going on. Another 150,000 tweets linking Mr Soros to the protests since last night. If anything, I think it's getting bigger and bigger https://twitter.com/debunker/status/1266785719772606464?s=19