Eva Bartlett

Eva Karene Bartlett is a Canadian activist and blogger who is known for promoting conspiracy theories about Syria.[1][2] She writes op-eds for the television network RT.[3][4] Bartlett describes herself as an "independent writer and rights activist."[5] Critics contend that her advocacy amounts to support for the Assad regime, and she has promoted the falsehood that the White Helmets stage rescues and "recycle" children in its videos.[1][5][6][7]

Bartlett in 2014

Early life

Bartlett was born in the U.S. and grew up in Canada. She taught English in South Korea after finishing university.[8]

Career

In her early blogging career, Bartlett concentrated on Gaza.[9][5]

Syrian civil war

Bartlett gained controversy over a video in which she alleges that rescues by the White Helmets are hoaxes and that they "recycle" the same children in footage of staged rescues.[10][11][12][13] Bartlett's claims were found to be false by Channel 4 News and Snopes.[1][5][6][7] Bartlett's claims were amplified by Russian-controlled outlets such as RT and Sputnik News.[10] Bartlett has characterized the White Helmets as being part of a Western propaganda campaign.[14] Bartlett has said that none of the civilians that she has met in Aleppo knew of the White Helmets.[14] A 2017 report by The Syria Campaign claimed that YouTube had removed several videos of Bartlett because the videos were on “accounts linked to Russian disinformation”.[11]

An RT video where Bartlett said that the 2014 election results showed that Syrians "overwhelmingly support" Bashar al-Assad was widely viewed.[14] BuzzFeed News noted that the 2014 elections were widely regarded as a "sham".[14][12]

Bartlett falsely claimed that the al-Quds Hospital bombing in April 2016, where 55 died, never occurred, saying it was rebel propaganda.[6][15]

Two 2017 reports, one by the Atlantic Council and another by The Syria Campaign NGO, on Russia's disinformation campaign in the Syrian Civil War claimed that Bartlett was part of a network seeking to discredit the White Helmets and lessen war crimes committed by the Assad regime.[3][10][11][16]

North Korea

Bartlett went on a government-sponsored trip to North Korea, and said that western media coverage of the DPRK is aimed to "garner support for yet another American-led slaughter of innocent people".[9][17]

References
  1. Solon, Olivia (18 December 2017). "How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  2. Reilly, Emma (22 January 2017). "Controversial freelance journalist to deliver lectures on Syria in Hamilton". The Hamilton Spectator. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  3. "Analysis | As the dust on an information war settles, the truth about the battle for Aleppo". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  4. "Why small groups of Western tourists are flocking to Syria". Newsweek. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  5. "FactCheck: Eva Bartlett's claims about Syrian children". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  6. "Syrian War Victims Are Being 'Recycled' and Al Quds Hospital Was Never Bombed?". Snopes.
  7. Robins-Early, Nick (10 January 2017). "5 Major Myths About Syria Debunked". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  8. "Gaza Under Siege – Eva Bartlett on Reality Asserts Itself (1/2)". The Real News Network. The Real News Network. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  9. "'Whitewashing War Crimes': How UK Academics Promote Pro-Assad Conspiracy Theories About Syria". HuffPost UK. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  10. "Atlantic Council - Breaking Aleppo – Breaking Aleppo". www.publications.atlanticcouncil.org. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  11. "Killing The Truth". The Syria Diary. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  12. "Den här Facebooksidan sponsras egentligen av den ryska staten". Metro (in Swedish). 30 January 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  13. "Fausses images et propagande de la bataille d'Alep". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  14. "This Quirky New Viral Video Channel Is Funded By The Russian Government". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  15. "The last doctor out of eastern Aleppo: "You can't just turn your back and walk away"". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  16. Reuter, Christoph (21 December 2017). "Desinformation als Kriegswaffe: Russlands perfider Feldzug gegen die Wahrheit". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  17. Loussikian, Kylar (5 September 2017). "Academic praises Kim Jong-Un's North Korea during visit". Queensland Times. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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