Disinformation about Syria saw a sharp rise in December, in the wake of the overthrow of the Assad regime by the country’s opposition forces.
The majority of false claims circulating on EU social media were clickbait and included the use of out-of-context images or videos or artificial intelligence software showing prisoner releases, brutal executions and torture, or even Bashar al-Assad himself.
Other false claims sought to exaggerate the negative consequences of the change of power. For example, they caused fear through Islamophobic narratives about mass arrivals
of refugees from Syria in the EU.
Read the entire EDMO brief with all the statistics around the types of disinformation at this link.