On August 28, a Georgian-language Facebook user disseminated a claim that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government froze a multi-billion-dollar contract for the purchase of 80 fighter jets with France because of Pavel Durov. According to his post, the decision was made after the founder of Telegram was arrested in France. The same information was...

On July 30-31, Georgian (1;2;3;4;5,6;7) and Russian-language (1;2) Facebook accounts spread a quote attributed to American director and actor Mel Gibson regarding the Paris Olympics. According to the quote, Gibson condemned the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, saying:  “he Olympic ceremony in France mocked my faith. Who do they think they are that they can...

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...

On May 30-31, Georgian-language Facebook user and the page “Anti-Liberal Doctrine” disseminated the information that 5 opposition TV channels in Moldova, which submitted incomplete information about funding, will be shut down. According to the comments, Facebook users perceive the information as persecution of opposition media and pressure on independent media. Information about the closure of...

On May 8, pro-government media outlet POSTV, as well as Facebook users Nodo Demurishvili and  Davit Jebashvili, posted a video in which a participant in the protest against the so-called law on agents stated: “I am now standing in front of Erekle and I want to reiterate that the first betrayal Georgia experienced was Russia’s...

On April 15, 2024, a Russian-speaking Threads user reported that the British publication The Economist predicted the start of a world war in view of Iran’s attack on Israel. In addition, according to the author of the post, the publication has previously predicted the terrorist attack in Crocus, the start of the war in the...

After the NATO summit held in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on July 11-12, cover images of several famous publications with the image of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were distributed on social media. Since July 12, 2023, Georgian- (1,2) and Russian-language (1,2,3,4) Facebook accounts have been publishing a cover photo of the German...

Since June 22, after President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Nika Gvaramia, the founder and former Director General of the private TV company Mtavari Arkhi, a number of manipulated photos have been circulating on social networks to discredit Zourabichvili. On 23-25 June, a photo of a woman who looks like Zourabichvili was posted on the...

On March 10-13, 2023, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3, 4) published a fragment of the video address of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to the posts, in his address, Zelenskyy stated that he wishes Georgia the same success as the Ukrainians achieved on the Maidan. On March 11, Zelenskyy’s video...

On March 4-5th, 2023, Russian propaganda media outlets Pravda.ru, Российская газета and kherson-news.ru, as well as Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4) and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4) Facebook accounts published posts, according to which Public display of Ukrainian flags in Israel is prohibited by law, otherwise, the fine is 10,000 Israeli shekels. Some of the...

On February 28th, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook users, as well as a Russian-language page Newsweek_VL and individual Facebook profiles (1, 2, 3), published a screenshot of the tweet of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. The screenshot shows that Musk has replied to a tweet related to the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, saying that the city...

On February 25-26th, 2023, photos depicting the meeting of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the President of the US, Joe Biden, in Kyiv went viral on social networks and media. Russian propaganda outlets (Известия, lenta.ru, ria.ru, aif.ru, topnews.ru, riafan.ru, fedprss.ru) and individual Facebook accounts (1, 2) wrote that the president of Ukraine has...