Gay girl in Damascus actually a straight boy in Edinburgh

[beowabbit]

Sorry for the somewhat behind-the-curve post about this; it didn’t occur to me at the time the story broke to post a correction, and by the time it did I presumed it was too late to be worthwhile, but a message from kw_leigh changed my mind. (Thanks!)

Comments

[derien]

Wow, that's so fucked up that I just don't even know where to start. It's true, "On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog."

What I really want to know now, though, is are there any REAL blogs of people in Syria? They're probably less believable. ;)

[cos]

Whenever you have a question of this sort, http://globalvoicesonline.org/ is the place to find the answers.

I see their special coverage of Syria is linking other social media, such as twitter and youtube videos, but no blogs. And their list of web sites on the topic has just two, one of which is al Jazeera's blog, and the other is a Syrian site that just gives a database error.

So I guess the answer to your question is "no". But if you want to keep up on what actual Syrians are posting to the net through other media, Global Voices is a good place to go.

[ron_newman]

This guy should burn in hell. There's no excuse for perpetrating a hoax that endangers real people.