Syria Civil Defence is a volunteer corps of 3,300 first responders, fighting a losing battle in a devastated nation. You’ve likely seen its members—known as White Helmets—in photos on social media, carrying dusty, injured children out of bombsites. They’ve saved nearly 100,000 Syrians who otherwise would have been fatalities of the country’s ongoing civil war. They were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize last year. They have now become targets of weaponized narrative attacks from White Helmet “truthers”—who range from Assad’s supporters to the Russians to Alex Jones of the U.S. alt right. They accuse the group of staging rescue photos, belonging to al Qaeda, and being pawns of liberal bogeyman George Soros. This Wired piece is the story of how that attack grew. -- JG.