On June 7, a news agency „არტინფო“ (“Art-info”) shared news that Chinese were allegedly destroying a church in Naghvarevi village. Art-info disseminated the news based on Tinatin Mghvdliashvili, a poet. Based on the sole source, these news were also disseminated by the following webpages: progressnews.ge and geonews.com, as well as Facebook pages „ყველაფერი სამხედრო“ (“Everything...

On May 2, 2020, an anti-liberal Facebook page “კარდჰუ” (“Kardhu”) published a quote by Emzar Kvitsiani, a member of the Alliance of Patriots, claiming that the “ceasefire agreement” signed “between Georgia, Russia, Abkhazian representatives, and the United Nations” proclaimed Georgia as the defeated side. He also added that it became possible to hold on to...

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, Kremlin and Hezbollah-affiliated Bulgarian journalist, who is one of the sources of Kremlin’s disinformation against the Lugar Lab, has prepared another conspiratorial material about the Tbilisi-based lab. On May 2, Gaytandzhieva published an article on her blog dilyana.bg with a headline “Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats.” The...

On June 1, tvalsazrisi.ge published an article headlined “Along with Gareji, we are also losing Georgian monuments of Lori-Tashir!!!” The article refers to Giorgi Andriadze’s Facebook post, according to which Sanahin and Hałpat are Georgian churches and the Armenians compelled UNESCO to recognize them as Armenia’s cultural monuments. Andriadze, in turn, refers to ambioni.ge, the...

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After Russia banned wheat exports until July 1 amid the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia received 27,000 tons of wheat from the United States. The fact triggered speculations and anti-American sentiments that is a continuation of the narrative that Georgia allegedly has no alternative except for Russia and that the U.S. aid serves perfidious interests.   In its...

Mammals, including humans, after certain infectious diseases, develop immunity. This means that they are able to resist these particular diseases. Disease-causing agents are called antigens. When a person catches infection for the first time, organism uses a variety of defense strategies and, after victory, produces special Y-shaped proteins, antibodies (immunoglobulins). The antibody fits the antigen...

On May 20, Mtavari Arkhi TV program “Dilis Mtavari” aired a story “New wave of deportation – Georgian citizens will be forcibly returned from Germany.” The information was posted on both platforms of Mtavari Arkhi – its Facebook page and website.  According to the story, the Georgian side plans to forcibly return Georgian emigrants residing...

The coronavirus pandemic has paved the way for a number of conspiracy theories and disinformation. Various groups have been spreading conspiracy theories in Georgia, among them the representatives of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Georgian clerics intensified their efforts amid the restrictions imposed during the Easter holidays, promoting conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccine.  The conspiracy...

On May 21, a Facebook page “Секрет гриффита Griffith’s secret გრიფით საიდუმლო” shared a photo which claims that the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is actually Jacob Greenberg and is the grandson of David Rockefeller, and that Facebook has been funded by a CIA-associated bank. The Facebook page shared the photo from another Facebook group...

Updated: On May 21, at 9:10pm, Facebook page Politicano also published the post identical to Kardhu. On May 21, Facebook page „კარდჰუ“ (Kardhu) posted a photo of U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger accompanied by allegedly his quotes: “Nobody will like the results of the October elections, but that will be democracy – Adam Kinzinger.” On the...

Georgian tabloid Alia published in its May 18-24 issue an article headlined “My drugs are for those, who are infected with COVID-19 as well as for those who want to avoid getting infected.” In the interview with Alia, Avtandil Kurdgeladze, who has a keen interest in photomedicine, noted that he created a medicine called “corvirant,”...