"Soros foundation condemns Campbell Soup executive tweet", 23 Oct 2018

George Soros’s foundation has demanded Campbell Soup take action after one of its executives promoted a rightwing conspiracy theory about the organisation on social media. A...tweet by Kelly Johnston, the food company’s vice-president for government affairs, in which he claimed Mr Soros’s Open Society Foundations was supporting thousands of migrants headed towards the US border, came on the same day that a bomb was found at one of the billionaire financier’s New York homes. Mr Soros, whose foundation provides funding to support democracy and human rights, has become the target of relentless verbal attacks by far-right conservatives. Mr Johnston’s tweet, since deleted, referred to a caravan of Central American migrants which is making its way through Mexico. “@OpenSociety planned and is executing this, including where they defecate,” he wrote... “Those ‘views’ add to a toxicity in our communities and contribute to inciting hate and quite possibly violence,” Patrick Gaspard, the organisation’s president, wrote in a letter to Les Vinney, the food company’s chairman, and Keith McLaughlin, its interim chief executive... Mr Johnston was “promoting lies”, Mr Gaspard wrote: “For the record, neither the Foundations nor its founder and chairman, George Soros, are funding this group of people... I am frankly shocked that your company would tolerate this sort of behaviour from a top official.”