Pages and accounts on social media, among them the page Damascus 24, circulated a report claiming that the Syrian government had recently halted the renewal of the license of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh and Partners company in Syria, against the backdrop of statements by the Jordanian businessman Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, with a reference to those statements being considered a violation of Article 49 of the Constitutional Declaration.
The fact-checking team reviewed the official sources and traced the chronology of the report, and it emerged that the decision is not recent, as the Syrian Ministry of Finance had already published it on its official account on the X platform on July 21, 2025.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of temporal context: The claim relied on republishing an earlier decision as if it were a new government measure, which changes its temporal context and suggests a link to current developments.
