Why is George Soros dead even he is alive and fine?

American investor George Soros of Hungarian origin was the victim of a death hoax in his name. The words "George Soros dead" went viral on social media, but it is untrue. The 92-year-old investor and philanthropist is alive and well.George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor who emigrated to England in 1947 from Hungary to escape the Nazis. Soros attended the London School of Economics (LSE) and began working at merchant banks, first in England and then in the US. In 1969, George Soros started his own hedge fund. Thereafter, there has been no looking back. Soros started Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. As of 2023, he is reportedly worth £5.8 billion, that is after he gave away 80 percent of his wealth to charity. Before that, he was worth £16.5 billion. He donated £13 billion to Open Society Foundations, a group of charities operating in more than 100 countries. On May 14, an apparent ‘conspiracy theorist’ named Cillian tweeted a breaking news announcement that George Soros is dead. He attributed the news to Politics For All Ireland, another fake account on social media. Cillian’s tweet from his handle CilComLFC has been viewed by more than 600,000 people. Now, Cillian is also making fun of the media for calling him a “conspiracy theorist”. He said on Twitter, “If the Mainstream Media—including The Daily Mail and The Sun—is calling me a “conspiracy theorist”, I must be doing something right!” But George Soros is alive and kicking! The veteran investor has been prey to a death hoax earlier, too, when reputed news agency Reuters accidentally published his obituary in 2013. Reuters removed the report upon realising it was a death hoax.

Reports say the 2023 George Soros death trend may have been started by pranksters, or even those targeting him for being Jewish. Soros was born in Budapest in the Kingdom of Hungary to a prosperous non-observant Jewish family, who, like many upper-middle class Hungarian Jews at the time, were uncomfortable with their roots. Soros has wryly described his home as a Jewish antisemitic home. The family of his mother Erzsébet (also known as Elizabeth) operated a successful silk store.His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro Ŝvarc) was a lawyer and a well-known Esperanto author who edited the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo and raised his son to speak the language. Tivadar had also been a prisoner of war during and after World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest.The two married in 1924. In 1936, Soros's family changed their name from the German-Jewish "Schwartz" to "Soros", as protective camouflage in increasingly antisemitic Hungary. Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning. In Hungarian, soros means "next in line", or "designated successor"; in Esperanto it means "will soar".

Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. The Nazis barred Jewish children from attending school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which had been established during the occupation. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: "The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, 'You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported'. I'm not sure to what extent he knew they were going to be gassed. I did what my father said."

Soros did not return to that job; his family survived the war by purchasing documents to say that they were Christians. Later that year at age 14, Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government's Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding. On one occasion, rather than leave the 14-year-old alone, the official took Soros with him while completing an inventory of a Jewish family's confiscated estate. Tivadar saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life", for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism. In 1945, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city. George and his mother also spent some time hiding with the family of Elza Brandeisz and even attended their Lutheran church with them.When he was 17, Soros relocated to Paris before eventually moving to England. There he became a student at the London School of Economics.While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter, and once received £40 from a Quaker charity. Soros would sometimes stand at Speakers' Corner lecturing about the virtues of internationalism in Esperanto, which he had learned from his father. Soros obtained his Bachelor of Science in philosophy in 1951 and a Master of Science in philosophy in 1954 from the London School of Economics. After graduating, he wanted to stay in the university and work as a professor but his grades were not high enough, prompting him to work for an investment firm in London.