A computer game was put on You Tube two years ago. The Russian Ministry of Defense published evidence that it claimed was proof that the U.S. was helping Daesh /Daw'aish in a tweet. It's evidence was a cropped image from the game. Another image was from a 2016 photo taken in Iraq.
Russia published the tweet on social media in Russian and English with the image from the game. In the upper right corner of the tweet published in Newsweek, there is a disclaimer from the video game maker. It reads: "Development footage. This is a work in progress. All content subject to change." Russia may have deleted the picture,but nothing is ever erased fully.
Russia should already have a policy in place that all articles published must be verified and double checked. It is common practice in much smaller countries. Also, it prevents public embarrassment for the countries leader.
I watched news feeds and read information from the following links before blogging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
http://www.newsweek.com/russias-evidence-us-helping-isis-comes-2015-computer-game-710474
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/11/14/russia-is-using-a-video-game-to-prove-the-u-s-is-letting-isis-flee-syria/?utm_term=.d19b6c7d438b
http://www.pcgamer.com/russian-military-uses-videogame-screen-to-prove-the-us-is-working-with-isis/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-video-game-evidence-us-direct-cooperation-support-isis-syria-raqqa/
https://gizmodo.com/russian-proof-that-the-us-is-helping-isis-is-actually-f-1820446490
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/us/russia-fake-photos-accusation-trnd/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41991012
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