{"id":8328,"date":"2025-04-15T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:39:15","slug":"disinformation-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/04\/15\/disinformation-and-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:6rmrhohel6shjpoug4yfzspr\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lmreitzzlk2h\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreig72v5n7g2na6ma3bbyzq6mpbib37h74bbmunq4ajejy36rfazdxi\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">The Assad regime developed a sophisticated media apparatus to discredit opponents, present itself as a defender against terrorism, and justify its actions. This continues, despite the regime&#x27;s fall as competing forces scramble for power, weakening hope for a new Syria, writes Zouhir Al-Shimale \u2b07<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:6rmrhohel6shjpoug4yfzspr\/post\/3lmreitzzlk2h?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New Arab (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:6rmrhohel6shjpoug4yfzspr?ref_src=embed\">@thenewarab.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:6rmrhohel6shjpoug4yfzspr\/post\/3lmreitzzlk2h?ref_src=embed\">14 April 2025 at 11:42<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Syria\u2019s disinformation campaigns illustrate the global nature of modern propaganda.\u00a0<br><br>&#8220;Many actors such as Russia and Iran are adopting both\u00a0overt and covert strategies\u00a0in Syria as a testing ground for information warfare to reshape narratives and rewrite the history of the country.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assad regime developed a sophisticated media apparatus to discredit opponents, present itself as a defender against terrorism, and justify its actions. This continues, despite the regime&#x27;s fall as competing forces scramble for power, weakening hope for a new Syria, writes Zouhir Al-Shimale \u2b07 [image or embed] &mdash; The New Arab (@thenewarab.bsky.social) 14 April 2025&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8329,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}