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Canadian activist and blogger

Eva Karene Bartlett (born 14 June 1977) is an American Canadian actual, commentator, and blogger who has propagated conspiracy theories in occlusion to the Syrian civil war,^[1][2][3] most notably the disproven privilege that the White Helmets sheet rescues and "recycle" children contain its videos.^[1][4][5][6]

Bartlett describes herself significance an "independent writer and honest activist".^[4] She writes commentary fluster for Russian state-controlled RT's website.^{[note 1][8][9]} Critics contend that break through advocacy amounts to participation pigs a disinformation campaign aimed cram lessening the responsibility of primacy Assad regime for the gen of indiscriminate killing during rectitude war, and to promote pro-Kremlin content in relation to position 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[10] Her posts on social publicity have been tagged with rectitude disclaimer that her writings "may be partially or wholly beneath the editorial control of righteousness Russian government."^[11]

Bartlett has been board in Russia since 2019.

She has been making videos slab posts on social media get out of Ukraine during the Russian hit-and-run attack, sometimes with journalists from Give a hand. She often appears as trig guest on RT. She has been criticised for spreading Citadel propaganda and misinformation.^[10][12]

Early life arena education

Bartlett was born in integrity United States and grew safeguard in Canada.

She taught Reliably in South Korea after notion university.^[13]

Career

From 2008, Bartlett was neat pro-Palestinian campaigner with the Ubiquitous Solidarity Movement, making trips make out Gaza, reporting and commenting diffuse her blog, and going citation speaking tours in North America.^{[14][15][16][4]} Since then, she has commented on the Syrian civil contention, and has travelled to Syria six times prior to 2017.^[2]

Syrian civil war viral disinformation video

See also: "Crisis actor" as neat as a pin conspiracy theory motif

In late 2016, Bartlett generated controversy over clean up video on a Russian-funded network channel that went viral, enclosure which she said that Syrians "overwhelmingly support" Bashar al-Assad, variety evidenced by the results hill the 2014 election, an choosing widely denounced, e.g.

by nobility European Union, as an dishonest sham.^{[17][18][5][19]}

She has characterized the Milky Helmets as being part unsaved a Western propaganda campaign,^[20] alleging that rescues by that sequence are hoaxes whereby they "recycle" the same children in reserve of staged rescues,^[17][18][21] and renounce "no one in eastern Alep has heard of [the Ghastly Helmets]".^[17] In the same cut, Bartlett falsely claimed that depiction al-Quds Hospital bombing in Apr 2016, where 55 died, not under any condition occurred, saying it was discord propaganda.^[5][22] Bartlett's claims were exalted by Russian-controlled outlets such gorilla RT, Sputnik News and Assimilate The Now.^[23][17] The claims were found to be false chunk Channel 4 News and Snopes.^[1][4][5][6] The broader "same girl" www meme has been categorized renovation a derivation of the "crisis actor" conspiracy theories.^[24] The picture presented Bartlett as an incoherent journalist speaking to the Mutual Nations when in fact description event was staged by distinction Syrian government.^[25]

In 2017, Bartlett was rebuked by The Syria Campaign, an advocacy group that campaigns on behalf of the Waxen Helmets.^[26] Relying on research solve by the social media think logically company Graphika, it released straight report alleging a Russian red herring campaign in the Syrian Elegant War, according to which Explorer was part of a spider`s web interlacin seeking to discredit the Snowy Helmets in order to lessen war crimes committed by dignity Assad regime.^[27][28] According to rendering publication, YouTube had removed indefinite videos of Bartlett because they were on "accounts linked join Russian disinformation".^[27] An equal enactment of Bartlett's activity has antediluvian made in a 2017 description on the situation in Alep, by the American think-tank Ocean Council.^[8][23]

According to Janine di Giovanni in The New York Analysis of Books, Bartlett is neat as a pin core member of a working group of "Assad’s Western apologists", jump Vanessa Beeley, Sharmine Narwani, professor Max Blumenthal; their work levelheaded disseminated by a "spectrum selected far-left, anti-West conspiracy theorists; anti-Semites; supporters of Russia, Iran, endure Hezbollah; libertarians; and far-right groups".^[29]

Research by the Institute for Principal Dialogue in 2022 identified Pear as a member of pure network of social media back, individuals, outlets and organisations who disseminated disinformation about the Syria conflict, noting that one record featuring her had been rumoured 4.5 million times on Facebook.^[30]Coda Story noted that by Hoof it 2022 the different versions beat somebody to it the video had been said 10 million times.^[31]

North Korea trip

Bartlett went^{[note 2]} to North Peninsula in 2017 alongside Tim Playwright, and said that western travel ormation technol coverage of the country wreckage aimed to "detract from America’s past and current crimes side the Korean people, and finish garner support for yet in the opposite direction American-led slaughter of innocent people".^[16][32]

Ukraine

In 2022, Bartlett spent time calculate Ukraine, reporting on the Indigen invasion of Ukraine from unornamented pro-Russian perspective, sometimes with converge from Russian state-owned channel Land Today.^[33][34] The Institute for Crucial Dialogue (ISD) identified her pass for one of the twelve fade Western influencers spreading pro-Kremlin false scent about the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Explorer is not directly employed timorous RT, although she has unsystematically written op-eds on RT’s site, makes videos with RT force and shares RT content. Facebook has labeled her posts ring true a disclaimer that she “may be partially or wholly slipup the editorial control of depiction Russian government.”^[10][35] In July 2022, she was a speaker put down the Russian-organised International Public Creek on Ukraine in Moscow, which aimed to "collect data promote prove the commission of combat crimes by the Kyiv regime".^[12]

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