How the White Helmets, Syria’s Volunteer First Responders, Became a Conspiracy Theory | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/2017/04/white-helmets-conspiracy-theory
Various White Helmet “truthers”—who range from Assad and his supporters to Russian embassies, and even to Alex Jones—accuse the group of staging rescue photos, belonging to al Qaeda, and being pawns of liberal bogeyman George Soros. The story of how that conspiracy grew is a perfect distillation of how disinformation can spread unchecked, supplanting fact with frenzy where no support exists.