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This is part one in an investigation into government-funded, opposition-linked NGOs that pose as impartial monitors and investigators of the Syrian conflict. More on propaganda, disinformation, and the information wars as tools in hybrid warfare.The Gray ZoneBehind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor Max Blumenthal

Many of these recent hit pieces are coming out of the UK, which is interesting given the way a BBC reporter recently admonished her interviewee for questioning the official story about the alleged Douma chemical attacks because his words could hurt the “information war” effort against Russia. If this view is widespread among British journalists (and recent headlines by the Times, the Independent and the Telegraphsuggest that it may be), this means we’re looking at an environment wherein...