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, Sputnik News and In The Now.[10][14] 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. Daro, Ishmael N. (16 December 2016). "This Quirky New Viral Video Channel Is Funded By The Russian Government". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  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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