ISIS was a creation of Western intelligence services. The main reason for this was to topple Assad in order to stop Russian pipelines from running through Syria into Europe and in order to install a friendly government that would allow Saudi/Jordanian pipelines instead. Most importantly, it kept perpetual war going which sells more weapons. Our leaders were starting to realize that the War on Terror was losing steam so it needed to become a lot more terrifying so the gravy train wouldn't end. Do you think its coincidence that Russia, with a tiny fraction of the US military budget came in to Syria and demolished ISIS in 6 months when the vastly-larger US military war machine attacked it ineffectually for years. Obama dropped over 30,000 bombs on the Levant in about 3 years time and ISIS just kept getting strong. Russia came in and basically obliterated them in 6 months.
Now the freakin Atlantic Council is in charge of Facebook censorship and for some reason there aren't riots in the streets. Attacking "Fake News" has always been the first step in modern totalitarianism. Tyrants take control of "the truth" in order to "protect people from lies".
This explains why the MSM was soooo excited when Trump bombed Syria. I was blown away when the media was saying how Trump was finally acting presidential. Its crazy how pro war the left has become.