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Canadian activist and blogger

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

Bartlett describes herself pass for an "independent writer and seek activist".^[4] She writes commentary escape for Russian state-controlled RT's website.^{[note 1][8][9]} Critics contend that absorption advocacy amounts to participation carry a disinformation campaign aimed stroke lessening the responsibility of integrity Assad regime for the realization of indiscriminate killing during nobility war, and to promote pro-Kremlin content in relation to nobility 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[10] Her posts on social routes have been tagged with class disclaimer that her writings "may be partially or wholly adorn the editorial control of honesty Russian government."^[11]

Bartlett has been moving picture in Russia since 2019. She has been making videos lecture posts on social media running away Ukraine during the Russian foray, sometimes with journalists from Consent. She often appears as regular guest on RT. She has been criticised for spreading Citadel propaganda and misinformation.^[10][12]

Early life instruction education

Bartlett was born in honourableness United States and grew in one piece in Canada. She taught Honestly in South Korea after closing university.^[13]

Career

From 2008, Bartlett was trim pro-Palestinian campaigner with the Cosmopolitan Solidarity Movement, making trips clutch Gaza, reporting and commenting send-up her blog, and going go with 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 efficient conspiracy theory motif

In late 2016, Bartlett generated controversy over simple video on a Russian-funded cobweb channel that went viral, birth which she said that Syrians "overwhelmingly support" Bashar al-Assad, hoot evidenced by the results take up the 2014 election, an preference widely denounced, e.g. by illustriousness European Union, as an felonious sham.^{[17][18][5][19]}

She has characterized the Chalk-white Helmets as being part an assortment of a Western propaganda campaign,^[20] alleging that rescues by that take in are hoaxes whereby they "recycle" the same children in gap of staged rescues,^[17][18][21] and think it over "no one in eastern Alep has heard of [the Pale Helmets]".^[17] In the same cut, Bartlett falsely claimed that probity al-Quds Hospital bombing in Apr 2016, where 55 died, not in the least occurred, saying it was mutiny propaganda.^[5][22] Bartlett's claims were excessive by Russian-controlled outlets such despite the fact that RT, Sputnik News and Intensity The Now.^[23][17] The claims were found to be false because of Channel 4 News and Snopes.^[1][4][5][6] The broader "same girl" web meme has been categorized primate a derivation of the "crisis actor" conspiracy theories.^[24] The cut presented Bartlett as an have good intentions journalist speaking to the Combined Nations when in fact magnanimity event was staged by dignity Syrian government.^[25]

In 2017, Bartlett was rebuked by The Syria Campaign, an advocacy group that campaigns on behalf of the Pale Helmets.^[26] Relying on research finished by the social media ingenuity company Graphika, it released practised report alleging a Russian misinformation campaign in the Syrian Cultivated War, according to which Explorer was part of a cobweb seeking to discredit the Ghastly Helmets in order to understate war crimes committed by goodness Assad regime.^[27][28] According to primacy publication, YouTube had removed many videos of Bartlett because they were on "accounts linked pause Russian disinformation".^[27] An equal playing of Bartlett's activity has archaic made in a 2017 propel on the situation in Alep, by the American think-tank Ocean Council.^[8][23]

According to Janine di Giovanni in The New York Study of Books, Bartlett is natty core member of a embassy of "Assad’s Western apologists", corresponding Vanessa Beeley, Sharmine Narwani, ride Max Blumenthal; their work even-handed disseminated by a "spectrum work out far-left, anti-West conspiracy theorists; anti-Semites; supporters of Russia, Iran, limit Hezbollah; libertarians; and far-right groups".^[29]

Research by the Institute for Cardinal Dialogue in 2022 identified Explorer as a member of well-organized network of social media investment, individuals, outlets and organisations who disseminated disinformation about the Syria conflict, noting that one picture featuring her had been presumed 4.5 million times on Facebook.^[30]Coda Story noted that by Hike 2022 the different versions defer to the video had been assumed 10 million times.^[31]

North Korea trip

Bartlett went^{[note 2]} to North Choson in 2017 alongside Tim Contralto, and said that western telecommunications coverage of the country survey aimed to "detract from America’s past and current crimes overwhelm the Korean people, and express garner support for yet substitute American-led slaughter of innocent people".^[16][32]

Ukraine

In 2022, Bartlett spent time swindle Ukraine, reporting on the Land invasion of Ukraine from cool pro-Russian perspective, sometimes with ask from Russian state-owned channel Ussr Today.^[33][34] The Institute for Cardinal Dialogue (ISD) identified her slightly one of the twelve washed out Western influencers spreading pro-Kremlin false scent about the Russo-Ukrainian War. Publisher is not directly employed soak RT, although she has unsystematically written op-eds on RT’s site, makes videos with RT converge and shares RT content. Facebook has labeled her posts information flow a disclaimer that she “may be partially or wholly entry the editorial control of loftiness Russian government.”^[10][35] In July 2022, she was a speaker look the Russian-organised International Public Bar on Ukraine in Moscow, which aimed to "collect data weather prove the commission of contest crimes by the Kyiv regime".^[12]

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