— For those unaware, on the left is Ahmed “al Jolani” Al Sharaa, the Salafi Emir of Syria who recently sent his jihadists to massacre up to 2000 Christian and Alawite Syrian minorities
He was an Al Qaeda member throughout the Syrian Civil War until he “moderated” himself in 2019 to receive Turkish support for his faction which ended up winning the Syrian Civil War last December.
He got invited to Brussels and the EU sent him money, money out of the taxes of European citizens.
— For those unaware, on the left is Ahmed “al Jolani” Al Sharaa, the Salafi Emir of Syria who recently sent his jihadists to massacre up to 2000 Christian and Alawite Syrian minorities
He was an Al Qaeda member throughout the Syrian Civil War until he “moderated” himself in 2019 to receive Turkish support for his faction which ended up winning the Syrian Civil War last December.
He got invited to Brussels and the EU sent him money, money out of the taxes of European citizens.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel.
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