On October 10, the anonymous Facebook accounts “Natsi Khvitia” and “We are already in Europe,” along with several other accounts (1, 2, 3), shared a video featuring Mate Kirvalidze, a journalist from “Formula” TV station, in which he states: “Yes, I want war. A war for Georgia to return to Europe once and for all...

On July 27-28, Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4) disseminated a photo of a high jumper, claiming it was taken at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The photo is accompanied by a French-language caption: “This year’s Olympic Games.” The posts suggest that the person in the photo is a representative of a women’s team in France. The disseminated photo has...

According to information spread on Facebook (1;2;3;4;5;6) on June 27, after the match between the national teams of Georgia and Portugal on June 26, Cristiano Ronaldo said: “The only thing I can say is that today we played against a team that may become the champion.” The footballer’s false quote is circulating on social network. No...

On June 14-16, 2024, Georgian (1;2;3;4) and Russian-speaking (1;2;3) Facebook users shared footage from a video showing a man wearing a dress and high-heeled shoes. The authors of the posts claim that the video depicts a senior NATO officer. The authors of Facebook posts disseminate video manipulation. The claims that the video depicts a senior...

Since June 14, Georgian (1,2,3) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2), Facebook pages, as well as Russian-language account fo Threads (1,2) have been reporting that Coca-Cola is returning to the Russian market, which is evidenced by the fact that the company applied for trademark registration in Russia in April. Part of the Facebook accounts disseminated the...

On June 10, conservative portal Georgia First published a news story headlined “California Democrat Senator says upholding the two sexes and parents’ rights is ‘hate’.” According to the news story, Senator Scott Wiener said that LGBTQ+ children in foster care do not belong to their parents but belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Moreover, according to...

On June 10, the pro-government TV channel POSTV posted information on its Facebook page, “POSTV – Analytics,” that Czech politician Markéta Gregorová was not re-elected to the European Parliament. To this information, POSTV added Gregorová’s comment of May 17, in which she stated that “Georgia has a pro-Russian government and Ivanishvili is an oligarch,” and...

From June 4 to 8, Georgian-language (1, 2, 3, 4) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3, 4) disseminated an LGBTQ+-themed photo illustration featuring a logo with the inscription, Kyiv Digital, and LGBTQ+ flags in the background. Facebook users wrote that for Pride Month, Kyiv metro has designed new metro cards featuring men kissing. In the...

On January 29, 2024, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a photo collage comparing the Stalin monuments in Berlin and Gori. In the photo taken in Gori, the monument is seen to have fallen after being dismantled, while in the black and white photo taken in Berlin, the monument of Stalin is still standing. The author...

On November 4, 2023,  Georgian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3) shared a photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the following quote: “I will be the one to return Abkhazia to Georgia “. The quote attributed to the President of Ukraine on the return of Abkhazia is fabricated. The information that Zelenskyy made this statement is...

On October 8, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user shared a post regarding a muslim who allegedly killed his wife in Egypt because of reading the Bible. According to the post,  the woman was buried with two still-alive daughters, one of whom was an infant, the other  – 8 years old. The Facebook post claims, it...

On July 28-29, an anonymous Facebook page, created under the name of a POSTV journalist, as well as anti-opposition Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3), published a scene from a pornographic movie, noting that the new US ambassador to Georgia, Robin Dunnigan, is a former porn star. The post also notes the following: “Before us, she...