Episode 15: Misinformation, from the Syrian Civil War to Mumsnet

Ok look this episode is really long, and its really weird, and the reason for that is that E is a big softy who allowed me to rant for like 2 hours about how the misinformation networks that evolved out of the media landscape of Syrian Civil war news reporting have to be understood if one is to understand modern fascist misinformation in general. Thats it. Thats the episode. Have fun. Im sorry ( I'm not sorry, except about the poor sound quality: we had a lot of technical problems editing this one). We will be back to slightly more normal content in episode 16 lol.

Content warnings include brief discussion of the effects on the human body of chemical weapons including Sarin gas and Mustard gas, as well as general discussions of violence and transphobia as per normal

Music for this episode was by Molly noise

Some sources on the misinformation campaign surrounding the chemcial weapons attack on Douma in 2018:

https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/chemical-weapons/

https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/news/douma-and-the-opcw-leaks

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2020/02/opcw-independent-investigation-possible-breaches-confidentiality-report

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/01/23/the-opcw-douma-leaks-part-3-we-need-to-talk-about-a-false-flag-attack/

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/09/douma-chemical-attack-evidence-syria/

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/russia-sows-doubts-chemical-attack-syria-aided-pro-trump-cable-channel/