That's actually pretty impressive that you were able to pickup on that.. the media did such a good job of confusing people that even those who lived in Syria weren't really sure what was going on in the very beginning. They realized soon enough that this was all staged and I actually have an article that I will be uploading on steemit tomorrow that goes into depth about what took place early on.
Believe it or not, till now I still hear people repeating the same propaganda they heard on TV that this was a peaceful uprising that turned into a bloody conflict between the civilians and state police and military but that isn't what happened. In one of my articles that I posted on steemit I talked about how the US was training "activists" a few years prior and getting them ready to do pretty much what these fake activists did which is spread false information meant to demonize the Syrian government via social media and even on mainstream media.
Once I learned about the Orange revolution in Ukraine, and then all the other colour revolutions starting with the first one perpetrated against Serbia. Everybody always spouts propaganda thats how you find out what narrative is being pushed.