India, March 7 -- A claim has gone viral on social media that George Soros, the billionaire investor and financier, has been placed on house arrest amid calls for the Department of Justice to probe into his organization, the Open Society Foundation. The posts go on to claim that Soros's son, Alexander Soros, has fled the United States over the purported house arrest.

However, the claims are false. George Soros has not been placed on house arrest, and his son, Alexander Soros, has not fled the United States. As of now, the DOJ has not launched a probe into George Soros, thought reports say that they were considering it at one point.

The post claims that federal agents surrounded Soros's estate in Katonah, New York and placed him under ho...