This paper examines the disinformation campaign targeting the White Helmets, a humanitarian response organization that provides aid (including rescue, medical aid, and body recovery) to affected people in rebel held areas of Syria.
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The group also documents impacts of the violence, including airstrikes on citizens perpetrated by the Syrian government and their Russian allies. And chemical weapons attacks.
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Around 2015-2016, the White Helmets began to garner attention from global audiences — and sympathy for their cause. They were the subject of an award-winning documentary. They were covered by “mainstream” media, helping to spread their messages to broader audiences.
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They also became the target of a disinformation campaign that worked to delegitimize the group & undermine the integrity of the evidence they collected/shared. Those spreading the anti-White Helmets narratives claimed that they were a “propaganda construct” of Western media.
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Our work examines “both sides” of the White Helmets discourse, looking at Twitter and YouTube activity over a year, May 2017 to May 2018.pic.twitter.com/MZDPzDs6nr
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We find that YouTube is a significant resource for the campaign against the White Helmets. The anti-White Helmets campaign also uses alternative media outlets — including clickbait and grey propaganda websites — to spread their narratives.
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“While the White Helmets receive episodic coverage from “mainstream” media, the campaign against them sustains itself through consistent and complementary use of social media platforms and “alternative” news websites.”
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We also find Russia’s influence apparatus supports the disinfo campaign against the White Helmets in many ways, e.g. publishing anti-WH articles, hosting anti-WH influencers in video interviews (enhancing their status), generating video content (that is remixed into other videos)
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We also provide an extensive appendix showing the most influential accounts and domains on either side of this conversation: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PDFappendix_starbird_jan3.pdf …
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The internet, for all of its potential for good, Is shaping up to be one of the most destructive things man has ever created.
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