This is a cracking piece of work from the Bellingcat gang. It’s also quite possibly the most grimly 2016 thing of 2016 – having to do OSINT verification on a 7-year old girl’s Twitter from the siege of Aleppo, because the trolls are denying she ever existed.
The only good thing about it is that people are having to go on record as saying “I think this 7 year old girl is actually an actress in Turkey being paid by the Jihadis to say there are airstrikes in Aleppo when there aren’t” and the fact that they’ve said that will follow them around for the rest of their lives.
We thought that about Iraq.
Seven days into 2017, Bellingcat raises the bar! https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/01/04/wadi-barada-happened-damascuss-water/