Pro-AKP trolls are justifying the field executions by claiming that the victims had a video on their phone showing abuse of detainees. Totally false. The video they're sharing was manufactured months ago as part of disinfo campaign bit.ly/3296Sjq bit.ly/32aqjbv
This disinformation campaign produced a number of videos claiming to show SDF abuses. One video, allegedly from Deir Ezzor, was geo-located to a checkpoint controlled by Sultan Murad Division in north Aleppo, among the factions that now invaded NE Syria bit.ly/2B5B3fJ
Sources in pro-opposition media outlets based in Turkey told me about pressure on them from the gov to share these vids, even though some were very amateurishly produced & clearly fake, embarrassing the outlets. This was the most systematic fake video campaign in the Syrian war.
As part of this disinformation campaign, 2 new media outlets were created, @AgencyZaitun & @AlfuratNews receiving financing from Turkey, focusing on spreading negative reports about the SDF (some true, some false). Another outlet, originally reliable, became a propaganda outlet.
