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Thursday, May 3, 2018
#DisinfoRiview: Children in the Disinformation Spotlight
“The OPCW is not a theatre”
, the UK’s OPCW envoy, Peter Wilson,
stated
on April 26. But trying to discredit the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and use it as a platform for the disinformation campaign was exactly what Russia was attempting last week. As often, children were put in the disinformation spotlight.
First
, an interview with a 11-year-old Syrian boy was internationally broadcast on
Russia Today
, shared on social media through
In the Now
– an
offspring
of Russia Today but with no traces of Russia in its branding – and
promoted
by Russian diplomats. Later the same boy was brought to the Hague to tell what he had experienced.
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