Tip: When the word "warlord" is used to smear a government official appointed to his post by the only internationally recognized, democratically elected parliament of #Libya, it's a pretty good sign that the rest of the article will also contain other Islamist propaganda and lies
https://twitter.com/snakhooda/status/1398573282492829701
1/2) Patient X of Libya related fake news: Both terrorist orgs such as Al-Qaeda+Qatari-funded outlets first used the term "warlord," "Kafir,"+"Zionist" (classic) to smear Haftar, appointed by the parliament to combat #Libya's terrorist and militia problem and restore sovereignty.
2/2) Fake news first planted in Qatari funded outlets, including AJ, are then picked up by "copy+paste" Western press, think tank, institutions funded by Qatar and disseminated by powerful agencies such as Mercury, also funded by #Qatar. [cont]
Islamists also directly feed fake news to sympathetic journalists who either don't know any better or are incentivised via access to interviews. This fake news behemoth which instrumentalized social media effectively was set up in #Libya since '11: salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k…
And there's the beauty of Doha's strategy: the richest country in the world funds both Islamist proxies and the people who are supposed to be writing about them -whether in media outlets, universities or think tanks. The net-effect is deception and compromised threat perception.
Example to illustrate how sustained propaganda will result in mainstreaming Kafkaeque characterizations of actors on the ground in #Libya. Compare/contrast these 2 articles
1: bbc.com/news/world-afr…
2:theguardian.com/world/2018/dec…
Actors in Article 1 combat the actors in Article 2
1: bbc.com/news/world-afr…
2:theguardian.com/world/2018/dec…
Actors in Article 1 combat the actors in Article 2
The major pivot in western press towards the adoption of radical Islamist lexicon began most notably in '17, after major Gulf states cut ties with #Qatar for its sponsorship of terorrist organizations. This embarassing excommunication sparked a propaganda war and shopping spree.
Major powers of Arab world were divided roughly along the lines of states who opposed radical Islamist ideology and those who did. LY's elected parliam't+army,Egypt, Jordan, UAE, KSA on one side...[cont]
and Qatar+ Ghanouchi's Tunisia on the other side, who lacking allies among their own, allied with Islamist Turkey+Iran and all terror proxies in between.
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