George Soros in Davos | Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Soros accuses Facebook of helping re-elect Trump ‘Facebook will work to re-elect Trump and Trump will protect Facebook.’

DAVOS, Switzerland — George Soros accused Facebook of working to re-elect Donald Trump in this year’s U.S. election campaign in exchange for protection.

“Facebook will work to re-elect Trump and Trump will protect Facebook,” the Hungarian-born U.S. financier said in a speech in Davos on Thursday. “It makes me very concerned about the outcome of 2020.”

A Facebook company spokesperson later told POLITICO in response: "This is just plain wrong."

Speaking at a dinner he hosted, Soros laid into Trump, China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, among others.

He described Trump as “the ultimate narcissist” and called Xi Jinping a “dictator,” while praising teenage climate activists such as Greta Thunberg.

But rather than ceding to despair, Soros said he had decided to launch “the most important project of my life” — a $1 billion investment in “critical thinking” via a new network of colleges.

The new Open Society University Network, announced at Davos, will expand on the Soros-backed Central European University which was made unwelcome in its campus in Hungary by Orbán.

This article has been updated with a response from Facebook.

Correction: This article was updated to correct the host of the dinner.