On December 12, 2020, a Facebook user Nona Bakuradze published a post about alleged financial connections between several international companies, George Soros, and Bill Gates. The author claimed that a Wuhan-based pharmaceutical company is owned by Glaxo, which is also the owner of Pfizer. Both companies are managed by BlackRock, a George Soros-owned company. The author also...

In the interview with Obieqtivi TV on December 10, Tina Topuria, a homeopath, spoke about “the threats” posed by COVID-19 vaccines, noting that the vaccine has already killed six people and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had to admit it. She also stressed that Prince Charles refused to get the coronavirus vaccine. On December...

On December 7, a Facebook user Nino Gaprindashvili published a video, which is originally English but is dubbed in Russian. The video shows a man that does not say his name and addresses the viewers as their “favorite science teacher”. The man discusses the masks and claims that the students should always wear them, but he also...

On December 6, Facebook user Nino Gaprindashvili published a Latvian Feldsher’s video address on her account. In the video, the medic criticizes drugs used in the treatment of COVID-19 and doesn’t agree with restrictions imposed because of the pandemic. According to Feldsher, remdesivir, and nimbex that relax muscles cause the death of patients. Moreover, he also notes...

On November 30, head of the “Rights Defenders’ Union” organization Nikoloz Mzhavanadze published a video on his Facebook account with the following description: “Azerbaijan dreams of completely conquering Georgia and publishes a scandalous video clip on social network”. Mzhavanadze also notes that for some agents of SOCAR, it’d be credible only if Russians produced the identical video...

On December 3 Facebook profiles Gia Ukleba and Nino Kogua published the post about Japanese Professor Tasuku Honjo’s statement about coronavirus. Identical information was published by the online media outlets ProgressNews.press and News-Front Georgia. ProgressNews.press cited megatv.ge as the source of the information, albeit as of December 6 the material isn’t available on the said webpage  On December 4, Tvalsazrisi.ge’s Facebook page published the information based...

On November 30, Facebook pages სექტა (Sect), მეხუთე რეიხი (Fifth Reich), რეალობა (Reality), მიხეილ უკრაინოლოგი (Mikheil Ukrainologi) and ანტილიბერალური დოქტრინა (Antiliberal Doctrine) as well as Facebook users გაბრიელ კამაევი (Gabriel Kamaevi), Oboladze Gia, Mindo Mandela and Nino Labartkava spread identical photos depicting Elene Khoshtaria, an opposition politician, holding a spray paint in her hand. Khoshtaria is standing in front of a police officer with a temporary wall erected behind the latter. The...

Activists gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on November 8 to protest ballot rigging and demand the resignation of CEC chair Tamar Zhvania, as well as holding of snap elections. Riot police dispersed the rally using water cannons. Like during previous rallies, pro-government trolls again intensified their efforts amid protests, trying to discredit the...

On October 20, xnews.ge published an article titled “Nika Melia’s Election Headquarters are Closed, Likely due to the Headquarters Members being Diagnosed with Coronavirus”. The article mentions that xnews received information from “a source”, without specifying the latter. Later, geotimes.com.ge disseminated the identical information based on xnews. News disseminated by xnews.ge and geotimes.com.ge is disinformation. Myth Detector contacted the election headquarters of Nika Melia. According to...

Update: In the originally published article “Myth Detector” claimed that the rabbi Amnon Yitzhak is an animated character. While the character is indeed animated in the Шок-инфo’s video, rabbi Amnon Yitzhak is a real person, who often spreads conspiracies regarding the new world order, United Nations, the pope, coronavirus and others. In February 2021, because of spreading...

On September 30, Facebook user Shore Shanidze published Nino Bregadze’s post on her personal profile, according to which World Bank has established the pandemic period until 2025. Post also discusses World Bank financing current experiments in developing countries and Georgia’s participation in it. Shanidze also writes that they have been working on a coronavirus vaccine...

Spreading anti-Turkish messages is a part of an electoral campaign carried out by the Alliance of Patriots (AoP) under the name “Protect Adjara! Protect your part of Georgia!” The leaders of the party – Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi and Irma Inashvili – label Turkey as an invader and refer to a map published by a Turkish newspaper...