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Who鈥檚 Pushing Syria Conspiracies?

Reporting on the ground is difficult in Syria, so who can you trust online to bring you the truth? Influential Twitter accounts are pushing conspiracy theories about the conflict.

There鈥檚 a disinformation war over the conflict in Syria. With reporting on the ground increasingly difficult, who can you trust to bring you the truth?

成人快手 Trending has unearthed a network of very influential Twitter accounts, some with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, who push conspiracy theories.

Plus authorities in the UK say social media is fuelling an escalation in knife attacks. We look into those claims and ask, have social networks really changed the nature of street violence?

Presenter: Jonathan Griffin
Reporters: Mike Wendling, Gem O鈥橰eilly
Producer: Elizabeth Cassin
Studio Manager: Nigel Appleton

Picture Caption: Profile picture of Sarah Abdallah, part of a network of pro-Syrian government accounts identified by the social media research company Graphika
Picture Credit: Twitter/@sahouraxo

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Mon 23 Apr 2018 03:06GMT

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