It’s been less than a week since Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assadthanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for helping “liberate Aleppo.” But that isn’t stopping Russian propagandists—and their buddies on the American fringe—from denying that civilians were bombed there at all.

Both Kremlin-backed networks and American far right websites have adopted and deployed the Western buzzword “fake news” for the very real bombings in Aleppo. Worse, they’re dubbing private American citizens “professional propagandists” for starting fundraisers in support of afflicted Syrian civilians.

Aleppo has been the home of a forced evacuation over the past several weeks—leaving traditional Western media reporters unable to gain firsthand access to the atrocities. But reports from nonpartisan, international human rights groups and videos from the scene show bombed-out buildings and dead civilians in the streets.

The narrative that Aleppo bombings are “fake news” are taking traditional paths to viral success in America—polished, easily shareable Facebook videos that have received pickup by mainstream American outlets and wide-reach Facebook pages. What those outlets may not realize is that the material was made with Kremlin money.

Still, the narrative of massive civilian casualties perpetrated by the Syrian government contradicts that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who yesterday applauded the Syrian army, saying “the result of [Syrian and Russian army] cooperation is a major victory in the fight against international terrorism.”

The most viral of the Aleppo denial claims comes from RT personality Eva Bartlett, who has been claiming that “the media is lying to you [about] Aleppo” for a year. (In August, she referred to the human rights group Amnesty International as “Shamnesty International” after the organization requested help in the Syrian city.)

Bartlett posted a video to a Facebook page called In The Now that has received over 2.5 million views in 12 days. In The Now is a Russian-backed viral news offshoot of RT meant to mimic BuzzFeed or NowThis News, and it mostly posts non-political lifestyle stories about things like cute animals and innovative technology.

In this video, however, Bartlett accused the civilians who were about to be killed if they did not evacuate Aleppo of being “activists.”

“What do all of these people have in common? They want you to think there’s one side to this story—one truth. That Assad is going from city to city killing his own people, for some crazy reason, with the help of Russia,” she says. “The question is, do you buy it?”

According to Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow Clint Watts, this is an example of a long-deployed Russian information tactic: sow doubt into every media institution, so that every fact—even if there’s definitive video from a mainstream outlet—becomes subjective.

“It’s not just an information war on America—it’s a war on information itself. The point of it is that you can’t trust anything. Then there’s no baseline. You can say and do whatever you want, and then deny it ever happened,” said Watts.

Watts believes this “just asking the question” narrative about the atrocities in Aleppo isn’t new—but those deploying it have been more successful since bloody videos and accounts of horror have made their way out of the Syrian city since the mandatory evacuation.

“This plays very much into the Russian-Syrian strategy from the beginning, to get rid of all journalists,” said Watts, who is also a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.

“Part of the reason you do that is, if you later need to fight an information war, and you want to kill civilians, all you have to do is say, ‘There is no real reporting here! How can you trust second-hand accounts?’ That’s what they’ve done a masterful job of.”

The post has been reposted by RT’s own Facebook page, but has received pickup by large pro-Donald Trump Facebook groups in the past several days. The 31,000-person group “VOTE TRUMP ONLY – THE AMERICAN PARTY RISING” and the 11,000-strong group “TRUMP – SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA” each posted the video in the last several days.