The Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (SPM) is a group of academics and others which claims that the Syrian White Helmets civil defence organisation has staged false flag attacks in order to trigger Western retaliation against the Syrian regime. The group was formed by environmental political theory professor Tim Hayward and former academic Piers Robinson in 2017. It has gained attention and criticism for disputing the veracity of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War.