© Miguel Medina/AFPSyria's First Lady
Twitter closed down a string of accounts purporting to be authored by the Syrian president and the first lady, emails reveal.
A senior aide to Asma al-Assad, Fares Kallas, took issue with the site over 11 accounts. Half of the accounts using the first lady's name and all but one of those using the president's name were closed down.
The author of one account, @Syrianpresident, described it as a "parody account" and said it had attracted 2,500 followers.
Kallas wrote to Twitter complaining that this and other accounts were "fraudulent Twitter accounts purporting to be the president of Syria and the first lady of Syria and we would like to officially request for these accounts to be removed or suspended. We believe that each of the following are clearly intending to mislead people via impersonation rather than act as spoof/humorous accounts."
Twitter told the Assad office: "We do suspend accounts that are clear attempts at impersonation," but added: "Twitter users are allowed to create parody, commentary and fan accounts."
Whilst the imperial propagandists are working overtime to sell another fraud on the Assad family [Link][Link], for the fourth or fifth time now, the ordinary folk have flooded the streets of Syria by the millions to demonstrate their solidarity with Bashar Al-Assad.... the pathological liars of the controlled press are bitterly playing this down as a mere a 'few thousand'....
Millions of Syrians Stress Support to Reform Program, Adherence to Syrian Leadership [Link]
(Some footage of the today's Pro-Syrian, Pro-Assad marches)
Damascus - Umayyad Square - [Link](Aerial View) [Link]
Aleppo [Link]
Tartous (marching in the rain) [Link]
Hasaka [Link]
Syrian Girl - Mass Rallies Against Conspiracy Today [Link]