On April 3-5, a former member of the Parliament of Georgia and analyst Demur Giorkhelidze and Georgian (1, 2, 3) and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1, 2, 3) disseminated a claim that the German government admitted that there was no pandemic. The claim is based on an article from The People’s Voice, linked to the posts. The...

On October 13, 2023, former Georgian MP Demur Giorkhelidze published a post about the US senator’s alleged public statement. The photo shows the CNN logo and the following inscription: Graham: “We must bomb the entire world.” On October 14, director and pro-government expert Goga Khaindrava published the same story on Twitter. He attached a Babylon...

On December 16-19th, Georgian (1,2,3) and Russian-language (1,2,3,4) Facebook accounts, as well as the Facebook page of the anti-liberal “Georgian Idea” party, published information about the resolution submitted by the Russian Federation to the United Nations, which concerned the condemnation Nazism, neo-Nazism and its other manifestations. According to some accounts, the countries that did not...

On July 5th, 2022, the former Georgian MP, Demur Giorkhelidze, published a post claiming that Germany was never independent because in 1949, it signed the so-called “Chancellor’s Act” with the US, according to which Germany had no right to pursue decision-making independently, and the German media had to be controlled by the US until 2099....

On June 11th, former MP Demur Giorkhelidze published a Facebook post, stating that Poland is planning to send troops to Ukraine at Zelenskyy’s request and wants to divide Ukraine similar to when Poland itself had been divided three times. Giorkhelidze disseminates the claim based on the statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. At a...

On April 30th, the former Georgian MP, Demur Giorkhelidze, published a post about the number of killed Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Giorkhelidze alleges that the total number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine after February 24th is 1899, and he uses the BBC as the primary source. The post also mentions that a group of...

On March 13, former Georgian lawmaker, Demur Giorkhelidze published a post on his Facebook page, saying that the fatality rate related to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is 58% and 41%, respectively. Citing the February 12 data of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), Giorkhelidze claimed that 929 out of 15,923 side effects from vaccination resulted...

  On February 12, Russian media outlet “Ria Novosti” aired footage of the map from Turkish private television and portrayed it as the state-owned channel. A map named “Turkish Sphere of Influence in 2050” was published by the U.S research center Stratfor and was discussed on the Turkish private television “TGRT HABER”. Besides “Ria Novosti”,...

On January 20, 2021, a former MP Demur Giorkhelidze published a photo of a map of Georgia on Facebook with the borders, recognized by the League of Nations, according to the author. As the photo claims, the French map was hitherto unknown and it was discovered in Göttingen Library in Germany. The photo indicates a...

On October 14, Editor of Kvakutkhedi magazine – Khatuna Saginashvili published a post on Facebook, where she claimed that Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) and Ilia State University prohibit citing Russian scholars’ works in scientific papers. Saginashvili’s Facebook post was published in the form of an article on October 15 by Marshalpress.ge and for.ge,...