No doubt there is trouble in Syria, but that girl is clearly being used to convey a political narrative. It reads like some PR firm is handling the Twitter acco

No doubt there is trouble in Syria, but that girl is clearly being used to convey a political narrative. It reads like some PR firm is handling the Twitter account, and forwarding articles to the press. They could be some entirely benevolent charity organization, but if not I would be skeptical of any narrative being pushed by a PR firm against a leader currently engaged in a civil war. The analogy with Anne Frank is nothing but clickbait or marketing, designed to manipulate people's emotions. That comparison looks like it was from the Washington Post, rather than the girl or her mother. > She is not part of any charity organisation, she says, and has no help from media organisations in Syria. But she took courses in journalism and politics as part of her university education - and knows how to get her message across. If that's true, 1. It's less likely a 3rd-party is staging the whole affair. 2. There's a plausible explanation for it sounding like a PR firm piece 3. The mother has some political views, and is strongly incentivized to express them if she thinks they'll change things. So who knows. I give it 70% that it's some mother trying to effect political change, and 30% that it's an unknown 3rd party helping to boost the message.