Between August 25 and September 16, Georgian (1, 2) and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1, 2, 3, 4) circulated information claiming that a World Economic Forum (WEF) document confirms that 6 billion people will die by 2025. The users shared photos and videos from a story by The People’s Voice, which addressed this topic. The claim...

On September 7, Facebook user Maia Tvaltvadze, a frequent spreader of fake news, shared information claiming that by 2025, billionaire Bill Gates would introduce a subcutaneous digital identity card for every child. According to the post, this digital ID would be implanted in children without parental consent. The same story was spread on September 11...

On February 12, the Russian propaganda media outlets Russia Today (1,2) and RIA Novosti (1,2) spread information about the testing of “dangerous” drugs in Mariupol “in the interests of Western companies.” According to RIA Novosti, the drugs were tested on patients of a psychiatric hospital, which is confirmed by the documents obtained. The RIA Novosti...

Shortly after Navalny’s death, an allegation circulated on social networks, blaming a Pfizer vaccine for Navalny’s sudden death. Georgian-speaking (1,2,3) and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) claimed that Navalny died from a blood clot caused by the Pfizer vaccine and that he was among those 20% who could die due to the vaccine’s side effects. According...

On February 7 and 8, information was spread on social networks (1, 2, 3, 4) that 40 children died in Ukraine as a result of vaccination. A video was attached to the messages. In it, an unknown woman, posing as an employee of the Kyiv office of the Pfizer company, claims that children in Ukraine are...

On June 2, 2023, a fragment of the interview with the Iranian media – Press TV by the American ex-lieutenant, Scott Bennett, was published in the Facebook group “Antilab-Georgia.” Bennett claims that biological weapons were being created on the territory of Ukraine under the leadership of the US. According to Bennett, this process started in...

On August 9th, 2022, the Russian-language online outlet Ridus.ru published an article titled: “Virologist Grigoryan: How the special military operation froze the activities of US bio laboratories in Ukraine.” In an interview with the outlet, Grigor Grigoryan notes that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was determined “not only by the geopolitical steps of the country,” but...