Every few months, social media lights up with posts claiming that billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros has been arrested, indicted, or secretly detained. The story usually appears on fringe websites, meme pages, or out?of?context screenshots, and spreads quickly because Soros is already a highly polarizing figure in political debates.

These posts often recycle the same templates: a fake breaking?news headline, a doctored mugshot, or a bogus “indictment document” with no veri