In April 2017, as Coda Story later reported, the NGO “Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights” (SWEDHR) released a video which claimed to discredit reports of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government. The video, which SWEDHR claimed depicted actors staging the aftermath of a fake chemical weapons attack, was actually footage of ‘White Helmet’ volunteers responding to a 2015 chemical attack. SWEDHR failed to reference the fact that the video was two years old at the time of its release. The Guardian reports that Russian state-sponsored media outlets RT and Sputnik seized on and deliberately circulated this disinformation in order to cast doubt on the work done by the White Helmets and the reality of the 2017 chemical attacks. Syria’s UN ambassador also cited SWEDHR’s claims at an April 12, 2017 Security Council meeting. Additionally, research commissioned by the human rights group the Syria Campaign, revealed that the network of Twitter users who discussed the White Helmets “included many known pro-Kremlin troll accounts, some of which were closed down as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the US election.”