HBS Media Fellow Emily Tamkin traveled to Bucharest to report on George Soros and a wave of protests. Read about her findings in Foreign Policy.
A Report from HBS Transatlantic Media Fellow Emily Tamkin
BUCHAREST, Romania — Last winter, in the middle of anti-corruption demonstrations, a television broadcaster accused George Soros — the Hungarian-born, Jewish-American billionaire philanthropist — of paying dogs to protest.
The protests in Bucharest, sparked by dead-of-night legislation aimed at decriminalizing corruption, were the largest the country had seen since the fall of communism in 1989. Romania TV — a channel associated with, if not officially owned by, the government — alleged the protesters were paid.
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