Searching for the truth in the rubble of ‘fake news’ from Aleppo
My dad is injured now. I am crying. Bana.” The seven-year-old girl, Bana Alabed, sent the tweet from eastern Aleppo a few days ago, as Syrian government forces closed in on her neighbourhood. The first online response to her was not empathy, but total cynicism: “Wow! I’m crying but I can tweet… Propaganda.” As bombs […]







