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  • Since early in the uprising, a group of pro-government hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army has used the Internet to attack opposition activists and their perceived backers, flooding Facebook and other social networking sites with pro-regime messages like 'I love Bashar' or other. often threatening, statements.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Increased online activity intended to disrupt the Syrian regime has meant the government has been waging counter-cyber warfare, dubbed the Syrian Electronic Army, with reports that web surveillance has led to arrests.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • "The EU sanctions targeting members of the Syrian Electronic Army show that the use of ICT information and communications technology as weapons is taken seriously," Schaake wrote in an e-mail to CNN.

    CNN.com 2011

  • That's what appears to have happened with the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government online force that Assad has praised as "a real army in virtual reality."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The Syrian Electronic Army claims on its Facebook page that it has no affiliation with the Assad regime and was founded by ordinary Syrians who want to defend the country against "fabrications and distortions of events in Syria."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The EU can and should do much more to hold its own companies, who are providing ICT 'weapons' to the Syrian Electronic Army and their collaborators, accountable.

    CNN.com 2011

  • The relationship of the Syrian Electronic Army to the government itself is unclear.

    Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2012

  • The Syrian Electronic Army is operating not only within Syria, but acts globally.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Syria Live Blog , which has been providing ongoing coverage of the Arab League's observer mission to Syria and developments in the ongoing unrest in the country, the hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army posted pro-Assad and pro-Syrian government images to the site.

    Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2012

  • The remaining three are accused by the EU of being members of the Syrian Electronic Army, which uses the Internet to attack opposition activists and flood Web sites with pro-regime messages.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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