Roll with me while I describe a case illustrating how pro-Assad activists amplify #Russia #Propaganda --- but don't know basics of disinfo they spread.
It begins w latest smear of #WhiteHelmets in northwest #Syria (1/x)
Part of this is to cover #Russia-regime bombing & mass killing of civilians. Part is to demoralize people amid pro-#Assad offensives.
#Syria (2/x)
On Sunday, @VanessaBeeley - key disinfo figure used by #Russia & #Assad regime - tried latest smear by pushing 2015 video from #Idlib in #Syria as "terrorist affiliations" of @SyriaCivilDef
(3/x)
I know content & context of video well. @EA_WorldView posted it in #Syria Daily, day after it was filmed. (Full vid & reveal to come)
#Syria #Idlib (4/x)
#Syria #Idlib (5/x)
Which in no way --- emoji aside --- addresses the question, "In what month was it filmed?"
#Syria #WhiteHelmets #Idlib (6/x)
Which is correct so: "Why was Oct. 2015 significant in #Idlib Province?"
Vanessa goes silent. Not a word about this, let alone where video filmed.
#Syria #WhiteHelmets #Idlib (7/x)
Which is wrong: Muhaysini was senior official in Jaish al-Fateh but did not "administer" anti-#Assad coalition.
#Syria #WhiteHelmets #Idlib (8/x)
Nor could her allies answer questions: @DPRKJones, who 1st pushed vid, asked re month of event: "Why would it matter?"
#Syria #WhiteHelmets #Idlib (9/x)
Nope, that was in spring 2015.
Other pro-#Assad activists make no contribution other than saying "Al Qa'eda". A lot.
#Syria #WhiteHelmets (10/x)
So what was this video that supposedly showed #WhiteHelmets are "affiliated with terrorists"?
#Syria #Idlib (11/x)
And here's reveal: eaworldview.com/2015/10/syria-…
Rally is in #Idlib city on Oct. 5, 2015 --- a week after #Russia began bombing across opposition areas of #Syria, including civilian sites.
#WhiteHelmets (12/x)
So residents rally in protest. So do fighters. #WhiteHelmets are on hand (you can see them in background) --- because gathering could be bombed.
#Idlib (13/x)
Maybe because they don't like being bombed by #Russia. Maybe they don't like the killing. And maybe because they are showing that will can't be broken.
#Syria (14/x)
#Syria (15/x)
But if you see it, ask for basic info. If/when they can't give it, say so. Check it out for yourself: find those who do know what happened.
#Syria #WhiteHelmets (16/x)
But if we accept that, we give into confusion & thus lies --- the objective of the disinfo campaign.
#Syria #WhiteHelmets (17/x)
eaworldview.com/2019/06/syria-…
#Syria #WhiteHelmets (18/x)
And you can wipe away war crimes.
#Syria #Idlib (19/x)
That's the least we can do for victims of the war crimes, in #Syria & elsewhere.
Thanks for reading. (20/20)
#Idlib #WhiteHelmets
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