Soros-backed, pro-China network fuels protests against US tech firms

Groups funded by George Soros and pro-China Neville Roy Singham protest U.S. tech companies. U.S. Soros-backed, pro-China network fuels protests against US tech firms Fox News Digital uncovers coordinated ecosystem of socialist organizations targeting U.S. tech firms over military, intelligence, immigration and law enforcement work By Asra Q. Nomani Fox News Published March 6, 2026 7:04am EST Facebook Twitter Threads Flipboard Comments Print Email Add Fox News on Google close Video Pro-China socialist groups are behind protests targeting tech firms On March 3, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a protest wing of a network funded by pro-China tycoon Neville Roy Singham, and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party co-organized a demonstration against Palantir Technologies' new headquarters in Florida. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the U.S. and Israel continued joint military strikes against Iran earlier this week, a woman pounded on a piñata resembling President Donald Trump as a small crowd cheered and clapped. But the scene wasn’t in Tehran.It was Aventura, Florida, outside Miami, near the new headquarters of Palantir Technologies, a government contractor that is supporting U.S. military and immigration enforcement operations, including "Project Maven," an enterprise that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze large amounts of data quickly for military targeting and surveillance. There, hammering away at the piñata was Britney Cooke, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, a pro-China group that openly says it wants an "international socialist revolution." It has railed against "US hegemony" and the "American empire" and advocated for an "anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement" in the U.S. from within the "belly of the beast." Britney Cooke, a member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, hits a piñata made to resemble President Donald Trump, March 3, in Aventura, Fla. Her group seeks an "international socialist revolution." (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)While local coverage framed the gathering as "a crowd" of "protesters" with "plenty of passion,," a Fox News Digital review of nonprofit filings, grant records and organizing materials indicates the event was orchestrated by groups operating within a sophisticated, donor-backed protest network with ties to far-left tycoons George Soros and Neville Roy Singham. The findings raise questions about how coordinated activist campaigns — led by organizations, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that openly oppose U.S. "imperialism" and praise foreign adversarial regimes — are mobilizing against American military contractors amid escalating conflict abroad and intensifying technological competition with China. A spokesperson for Palantir declined to comment. Singham hasn't responded to requests for comment."This type of fake activism disturbs me," said Chuck Flint, president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability and a former assistant prosecutor in Florida. "These groups are helping China and hurting the United States." "This is certainly not grassroots activism," Flint told Fox News Digital. "It looks more like a foreign influence operation that is actually weaponizing American tax laws to undermine American national security interests." He noted, "It's coming at a time when U.S. troops are relying on Palantir technology in active combat right now."A Fox News Digital investigation found the protest campaigns operate through several hubs that bring far-left groups together, forming an ecosystem of organizations targeting technology firms on multiple issues, from immigration enforcement to predictive policing, military technology and health-care data systems.The operations behind these campaigns reflect what experts describe as a professional protest infrastructure, including tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, digital messaging toolkits and coordinated protest actions across multiple cities, with shared leadership, research, messaging and organizing. NETWORK FUNDED BY PRO-CCP TECH TYCOON TARGETS PALANTIR AMID ANTI-US PROTESTS THAT SUPPORT THE REGIME IN IRAN Romeo Umana, center, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Britney Cooke, right, a member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, a socialist organization, protest near Palantir's new headquarters in Florida. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)In recent years, this network has organized protests against companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft over their work with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies.As China wages an AI race with the U.S., the network has also supported regimes with well-documented histories of aggressive surveillance of their citizens and suppression of human rights. The Florida demonstration was co-organized by the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a protest arm of a network funded by Singham, an American-born, self-described Marxist based in Shanghai, openly supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).