Syria: Top academics claim chemical attacks were fake
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Apologists for Assad working in British universities
Top academics claim chemical attacks were fake
Georgie Keate, Dominic Kennedy, Krystina Shveda, Deborah Haynes
April 14 2018
The Times
Senior British academics are spreading pro-Assad disinformation and conspiracy theories promoted by Russia, The Times can reveal.
They are founders of a self-styled Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (SPM) and hold posts at universities including Edinburgh, Sheffield and Leicester.
Members of the group, which includes four professors, have been spreading the slur, repeated by the Russian ambassador to Britain yesterday, that the White Helmets civilian volunteer force has fabricated video evidence of attacks by President Assad, who is backed by the Kremlin.
SPM’s advisers include an ...
