On August 3, the host Nino Ratishvili of the program “Night Studio” of Obiektivi TV invited homeopath Tinatin Topuria who spoke about deceased elderly people in Italy and Spain in times of pandemic. According to her claims, those people who had flu and pneumococcal vaccines died in nursing homes. Topuria also stated that the cause...

On August 11, 2020, Levan Vasadze posted a video-address to Bidzina Ivanishvili on Facebook. Together with other issues, he reviews the case of separating a three-year-old baby from a single mother by a social worker. Based on this specific incident, Vasadze discusses the negative consequences Child Rights’ Code in general and claims that the Code...

On August 4, an online edition Georgia and World published an interview with Levan Chachua, leader of the public movement Georgian Idea, headlined “Levan Chachua: Georgia will soon have a subdivision of juvenile fascists.” The respondent speaks about separation of three-year-old Nikoloz from his mother, noting that the only reason behind this separation is the...

New details uncovered in the case of late Tamar Bachaliashvili and the mistrust declared by her family towards investigation prompted pro-government actors to discredit Tamar Bachaliashvili’s father, Jumber Bachaliashvili. After an intensive five-day search for 23-year-old Tamar Bachaliashvili, police found her body in her own car in a forest near Tetritskaro on July 22. The...

On July 27, Arno Khidirbehishvili, the Editor-in-Chief of Saqinform, mentioned in his article published on Saqinform that Mikheil Saakashvili signed an agreement that allows Russia to demand from Georgia to allow a passage of military cargo through its territory under force majeure situations. An internet-program “Salte” disseminated identical information on July 19, where the host of the program and a former member of the...

Speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic during Obieqtivi TV program “Gamis Studia” (Night Studio) on July 9, Nona Agdgomelashvili, a Georgian astropsychologist, said that a surprise outbreak is not typical for this type of pandemic and that it was plotted long ago. Referring to the statement made by Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute...

On July 1, US Ambassador in Georgia Kelly Degnan stated during the international online conference organized by the Georgian Institute of Politics that Georgia is a target of Kremlin disinformation and Russia may try to interfere in Georgia’s parliamentary elections. According to Degnan, the fact that Georgia is moving towards a proportional system increases the...

On June 23, Facebook user Shore Shanidze published a post on her page highlighting the issue of mandatory vaccination. Shanidze claims that Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has signed a commitment, along with sixty other countries, on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Shanidze refers to Imedinews as its source of information. However, the news story published by...

On June 11, Nino Ratishvili, host of Obieqtivi TV’s Gamis Studia (Night Studio) program, and Tina Topuria, a homeopath invited to the program, spoke about COVID-19 vaccination. Nino Ratishvili claimed that the existence of a vaccination summit may become a signal for making vaccination mandatory in “the third countries” as well as for launching experiments...

On June 11, Facebook pages and groups spread a fake screenshot of on.ge’s article headlined “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin is a racist poem and should be banned, because it frequently uses the words ‘Negro slave’.” The screenshot involves Public Defender Nino Lomjaria’s photo and the quotation is just ascribed to her.   Facebook profile...

Based on open source information, the Myth Detector has analyzed the pages run by Irakli Jankarashvili as well as the platforms associated with him, identifying the links between pro-government, antiliberal and pro-Russian platforms. Irakli Jankarashvili runs the page “ანტილიბერალური დოქტრინა” (Antiliberal Doctrine) and a group “ამხილე პორტირებული ნაცები” (Disclose Ported Natsis, referring to the opposition...

A Facebook page „სტალინი“ (“Stalin”) has been re-introducing old conspiracy theories about the Lugar Laboratory in the context of the coronavirus threat. By re-sharing archive materials, the page creates a false perception that the dissemination of coronavirus is connected to Lugar Lab and the United States. On May 1, a Facebook page “Stalin” shared a...