Assad Supporters Plan to Put the ‘Media on Trial’ for Doing Journalism in Syria

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Assad Supporters Plan to Put the ‘Media on Trial’ for Doing Journalism in Syria
A panel of conspiracy theorists plan to gather to discuss whether war reporters should be considered terrorists.
By Bethania Palma
3 May 2018

A group of British and American supporters of Syrian dictator and suspected war criminal Bashar al-Assad wants to put the media “on trial” in a May 2018 panel, where they plan determine whether journalists for Britain’s Channel 4 and the BBC — who reported from conflict zones in Syria and Libya — should be considered terrorists.

The panel was scheduled for 27 May 2018 at Leeds City Museum, but the museum has since cancelled the event. It includes Vanessa Beeley, a British blogger who has gained notoriety by churning out regime propaganda, and Patrick Henningsen, a former writer for Alex Jones’s conspiracy trolling network InfoWars.com.

Both are now editors for 21stCenturyWire.com, a disreputable web site that posts pro-Assad disinformation among a garbled cornucopia of pseudoscience and Holocaust denial. The site often hosts David Icke, a British personality who sells the belief that the world is secretly controlled by a race of shape-shifting lizard people who have faked mass casualty events like 9/11.

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