Before the revolution, the Kurdish media in Syria were at the service of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and private ownership of media outlets was forbidden. There was no freedom of expression in the mainstream media. As a result, journalists, oppositionists and intellectuals created publications to express their different opinions and inclinations.
Following the Arab Spring, and after Western media outlets helped unveil what was really going on and spread the news, social media pages were the best source of information on current events.