A Facebook user Koba Janiashvili published a broad post in a group called “საერთო სახალხო მოძრაობა ქართველი ერის გადარჩენისთვის!” (United popular movement to save Georgian nation!) on November 19 about a vaccine against COVID-19. The author claims in the post that the recently developed vaccines are harmful. According to him, “vaccines created in the recent decades contain...

On October 29, a pro-Kremlin online media outlet News Front published an article titled ”Position of a Famous Astrologist about the COVID-Histeria that Possessed the Entire World”. The article comes with a video statement of a Russian astrologist, Pavel Sviridov, where he claims that coronavirus has been disseminated via the emissions of aircrafts. In the beginning, he...

On October 11, Facebook user Dali Razmadze published a post in the group “Let’s defeat Coronavirus/COVID-19 together”, where she formulates an opinion that elders were put to sleep by injection in Italy and that they cut back on pensions by doing so. She cites Italians in general as a source and states that if it...

On September 22, Facebook user Tea Alvarez spread the post about the coronavirus and Swedish approach in the fight against the epidemic in the group “Union of Georgian Emigrant Women”. According to the claims of a Facebook user, in the video shared via youtube, the former health minister of Sweden announces that COVID-19 is a...

On September 22, 2020 leader of the “Alliance of Patriots” Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi stated on the “Obiektivi” TV that coronavirus doesn’t exist and the whole world acknowledged this fact. According to him, restrictions put in place to fight the epidemic has already been removed, whereas Europe doesn’t plan on closing down cinemas and restaurants. As Davit...

On September 11, 2020, News Front Georgia, an online outlet, published an article headlined “Turkey plans to speed up the repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia.” Shota Apkhaidze, editor of the online media outlet, claims that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia to cover all expenses for the resettlement of...

On September 8, member of Alliance of Patriots Giorgi Lomia discussed the poisoning of Russian opposition-member Alexei Navalny on the program “For Everybody to Hear” of Night Studio, “Obiektivi” TV. According to him, it was confirmed that Alexei Navalny wasn’t poisoned by “Novichok”. On September 8, “Sakinformi” published the statement from one of the creators...

On August 15, Imedinews.ge published an articleheadlined “Special homes will be built in Europe for opponents of 5G.” According to the article, electromagnetic radiation-free homes will be built in Helmond, Netherlands for those people, who are sensitive to 5G that is manifested in headaches and sleeping problems. Imedinews.ge refers to the article by Innovation Origins,...

Medical blog  “Myth Detector” continues scientific and medical blog series that, in times of coronavirus pandemic, aims to provide society with scientifically proven facts about health-related issues and to dismiss anecdotal evidence spread by various sources.  The topic of today’s blog is antibiotics and discretionary use of it. The blog is presented by doctor anesthesiologist-intensivist...

On July 8, the webpage of the Georgian version of Sputnik published an article titled “Opinion: Why Is the Western Media Losing Positions?”. The article concerns a study carried out by Russia Today, called “Octopus 2.0. Coronavirus in Russia”. The authors of the study believe that the Chinese and the Russian media are far more effective...

On July 4, Gia Areshidze, the former host of TV Obiektivi’s Night Studio, was a guest of the mentioned program. During his air time, he accused the Democratic Party of the United States of “sacrificing the lives” of its own and Georgia’s citizens. According to Areshidze, people died in the U.S. because of the Democrats, as they were treated...

On July 6, an official Facebook profile of the South Ossetian TV and Radio Company “ИР” run by the occupied region’s government shared a video headlined “Experiments on people in Georgia” in the group with the same name. The video has a caption “What is happening at Lugar Lab.” The media outlet posted an identical...