Lebanese troll CNN for using Hariri's photo to depict 'fresh faces' in recent elections

The Lebanese parliamentary elections took place last week on May 6, and the whole country was swept over with a tornado of misinformation, jokes, and outrage. 

It was natural for most Lebanese to flood Twitter with their thoughts and jokes on the matter, before and after the long-awaited elections took place.

But the sarcasm reached an all-time high when CNN posted this article on Twitter, captioning it "Fresh faces offer hope in Lebanon's first election in a decade," with Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the accompanied photo. 

While there may have been a few elected members who are new to the political scene, Prime Minister Saad Hariri - who is the article's primary focus - certainly isn't one of them. 

Hariri became an official part of Lebanon's political circle a few months after the assassination of his father, Rafic Hariri, in February 2005. 

In 2009, he was elected as Prime Minister - a seat reserved for the Sunni sect in Lebanon- and served till 2011. He was once again elected in 2016 and might see his turn ending this year. 

The young politician succeeded his father by becoming the leader of the Future Movement, a Sunni alliance his late father had started. 

Though in this article, CNN focused on the relationship between Hariri and Hezbollah, never mistaking the former as being a "fresh face," Lebanese tweeps read the tweet and were all over social media. 

With the opening sentence referring to Saad Hariri as Prime Minister, it is clear that CNN did not mistake him for a new candidate in the 2018 elections. 

The first part of the article detailed the shaky relationship between Hariri, leader of the Sunni political party Future, and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite party. 

Moving on towards the end, independent and civil society groups and candidates made an appearance, mentioned with an optimistic tone that matched the first part - "Our last hope" - up in CNN's title.