DISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY TROLLING IN THE WAKE OF THE SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK

KREMLIN PROPAGANDA led to questions and charges that an attack in the city of Douma that killed scores of civilians was a hoax.

On 7 April 2018, reports began emerging from the opposition-held city of Douma east of the Syrian capital of Damascus that scores of civilians had been killed and hundreds injured in a chemical attack. In response to mounting global criticism, the Russian government, which has allied with the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, ramped up its military-grade propaganda machine in an ongoing to attempt to obfuscate facts.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/04/12/disinformation-conspiracy-trolling-syrian-chemical-attack/