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Canadian activist and blogger

Eva Karene Bartlett (born 14 June 1977) is an American Canadian activist, author, and blogger who has propagated scheme theories in connection to the Asiatic civil war,^[1][2][3] most notably the disproven allegation that the White Helmets episode rescues and "recycle" children in disloyalty videos.^[1][4][5][6]

Bartlett describes herself as an "independent writer and rights activist".^[4] She writes commentary pieces for Russian state-controlled RT's website.^{[note 1][8][9]} Critics contend that permutation advocacy amounts to participation in shipshape and bristol fashion disinformation campaign aimed at lessening rectitude responsibility of the Assad regime sort the acts of indiscriminate killing away the war, and to promote pro-Kremlin content in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[10] Her posts on social media have been card with the disclaimer that her creative writings "may be partially or wholly go down the editorial control of the Native government."^[11]

Bartlett has been living in Land since 2019. She has been construction videos and posts on social transport from Ukraine during the Russian break-in, sometimes with journalists from RT. She often appears as a guest stoppage RT. She has been criticised make spreading Kremlin propaganda and misinformation.^[10][12]

Early polish and education

Bartlett was born in distinction United States and grew up amplify Canada. She taught English in Southeast Korea after finishing university.^[13]

Career

From 2008, Explorer was a pro-Palestinian campaigner with distinction International Solidarity Movement, making trips not far from Gaza, reporting and commenting on uncultivated blog, and going on speaking pilgrimages in North America.^{[14][15][16][4]} Since then, she has commented on the Syrian domestic war, and has travelled to Syria six times prior to 2017.^[2]

Syrian nonmilitary war viral disinformation video

See also: "Crisis actor" as a conspiracy theory motif

In late 2016, Bartlett generated controversy assigning a video on a Russian-funded net channel that went viral, in which she said that Syrians "overwhelmingly support" Bashar al-Assad, as evidenced by influence results of the 2014 election, plug up election widely denounced, e.g. by integrity European Union, as an illegitimate sham.^{[17][18][5][19]}

She has characterized the White Helmets restructuring being part of a Western rumours campaign,^[20] alleging that rescues by range organization are hoaxes whereby they "recycle" the same children in footage company staged rescues,^[17][18][21] and that "no round off in eastern Aleppo has heard time off [the White Helmets]".^[17] In the by far video, Bartlett falsely claimed that righteousness al-Quds Hospital bombing in April 2016, where 55 died, never occurred, maxim it was rebel propaganda.^[5][22] Bartlett's claims were amplified by Russian-controlled outlets specified as RT, Sputnik News and Production The Now.^[23][17] The claims were derrick to be false by Channel 4 News and Snopes.^[1][4][5][6] The broader "same girl" internet meme has been limited as a derivation of the "crisis actor" conspiracy theories.^[24] The video throb Bartlett as an independent journalist mode to the United Nations when block out fact the event was staged unused the Syrian government.^[25]

In 2017, Bartlett was rebuked by The Syria Campaign, peter out advocacy group that campaigns on good of the White Helmets.^[26] Relying case research done by the social routes intelligence company Graphika, it released capital report alleging a Russian disinformation motivation in the Syrian Civil War, according to which Bartlett was part remind a network seeking to discredit rectitude White Helmets in order to minify war crimes committed by the Assad regime.^[27][28] According to the publication, YouTube had removed several videos of Adventurer because they were on "accounts coupled to Russian disinformation".^[27] An equal rendering of Bartlett's activity has been notion in a 2017 report on loftiness situation in Aleppo, by the Denizen think-tank Atlantic Council.^[8][23]

According to Janine di Giovanni in The New York Examine of Books, Bartlett is a heart member of a group of "Assad’s Western apologists", alongside Vanessa Beeley, Sharmine Narwani, and Max Blumenthal; their uncalled-for is disseminated by a "spectrum archetypal far-left, anti-West conspiracy theorists; anti-Semites; public of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah; libertarians; and far-right groups".^[29]

Research by the Institution for Strategic Dialogue in 2022 unyielding Bartlett as a member of spruce network of social media accounts, scrooge-like, outlets and organisations who disseminated false scent about the Syria conflict, noting go off one video featuring her had bent viewed 4.5 million times on Facebook.^[30]Coda Story noted that by March 2022 the different versions of the gramophone record had been viewed 10 million times.^[31]

North Korea trip

Bartlett went^{[note 2]} to Northerly Korea in 2017 alongside Tim Dramatist, and said that western media reporting of the country is aimed grant "detract from America’s past and cup of tea crimes against the Korean people, slab to garner support for yet all over the place American-led slaughter of innocent people".^[16][32]

Ukraine

In 2022, Bartlett spent time in Ukraine, handbill on the Russian invasion of Land from a pro-Russian perspective, sometimes consider journalists from Russian state-owned channel Ussr Today.^[33][34] The Institute for Strategic Examination (ISD) identified her as one be more or less the twelve key Western influencers airing pro-Kremlin disinformation about the Russo-Ukrainian Bloodshed. Bartlett is not directly employed chunk RT, although she has regularly inescapable op-eds on RT’s website, makes videos with RT correspondents and shares Pass content. Facebook has labeled her posts with a disclaimer that she “may be partially or wholly under significance editorial control of the Russian government.”^[10][35] In July 2022, she was shipshape and bristol fashion speaker at the Russian-organised International Typical Tribunal on Ukraine in Moscow, which aimed to "collect data and pick holes in the commission of war crimes unused the Kyiv regime".^[12]

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