The Syrian President Scripted and Staged on Instagram

It's a bit unnerving to see the news reports of the escalating conflict in Syria in juxtaposition with the smiling faces on President Assad's Instagram account.

As the conflict in Syria has grown more heated, social media has been used to spread awareness, particularly about the recent chemical attacks. Instead of cutting off access to the protest social media channels, the Syrian government is running a social media campaign of its own.

According to the New York Times, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is doing his best to maintain a “veneer of normalcy,” which only serves to hide an increasingly aggressive dictator whose solution to the protests taking place in Syria is to liquidate the terrorists.

The report called the Official

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