On December 25th, the Georgian government revealed its plans to abolish the State Inspector’s Office and create two new supplementary agencies. The State Inspector herself responded to the information, noting that she had found out about the “conspiratorially” initiated change regarding the abolition of her service from the media. She further noted that the change cannot be perceived as a reform...

In 2021, “Myth Detector” fact-checked a number of absurd myths. Here are the 10 most unbelievable disinformation we have revealed in 2021. Walt Disney’s body is frozen and is waiting to be revived source: npg.ge Based on Daily News Reported, website npg.ge claimed that after Walt Disney’s death, his body was frozen in the hope that...

Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has become a target of violent groups this time. The newly-created political party “Conservative Movement,” whose leaders have incited violence against Tbilisi Pride on July 5th, resulting in the injury of 53 journalists, has announced a rally outside the Ombudsman’s office on December 24th. The organizers demand the release of the violent activists...

On November 23rd, 2021, Giorgi Kardava, the host of Alt-Info’s program “Alt-Analytics,” stated that the more liberal the state becomes, the higher its crime rate. According to the host, most criminals reside in Western countries. Kardava spoke about Sweden, asserting that it leads the world rankings for the number of rape cases. In addition, in non-democracies such...

After the deterioration of the health of the imprisoned third president of Georgia, the Ombudsman and her group of experts assessed the health condition of Saakashvili as critical. They recommended his treatment in the intensive care unit of the multi-unit hospital. The statements voiced by the Ombudsman resulted in the emergence of anti-opposition pages and government trolls,...

On November 20th, the Georgian version of the pro-Kremlin “News Front” and the pro-governmental “Spacenews.io” published a Facebook post by the founder of the Caucasus Center for Islamic Studies,Shota Apkhaidze. Apkhaidze claims that the Public Defender and Formula TV received 580,000 EUR from the Armenian organization Patterson Belknap, the French Kagan Foundation and the Russian...

The arrest of the former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, became the subject of scrutiny for several members of the European Parliament. On November 12th, MEP Anna Fotyga arrived in Georgia to visit the ex-president Saakashvili in prison, but she was denied. The Minister of Justice, Rati Bregadze, named the Georgian Criminal Codeas the reason behind the refusal, asserting that...

On November 9th, a Facebook page “National News” positioning as a media outlet published the results of an alleged survey conducted by a research organization “EMB-research” on the public support of Mikheil Saakashvili. The survey results claimed that 82% of the Georgian population is in terms with the imprisonment of Saakashvili, 15% demands his immediate release, while 3% abstains...

On October 2nd, 2021, Georgia held the local self-government elections, while on October 30th, the second round of mayoral elections was held in 5 self-governing cities and 15 municipalities. “Myth Detector” identified the following types of election-related violations during the pre-election period from July 31st to November 3rd: Disinformation and other manipulative content Disinformation and Positioning...

On October 26th, 2021, Irakli Martinenko, the host at “Alt-Info,” said that systematically unacceptable forms of punishment, such as rape and similar methods, were not employed under Joseph Stalin’s rule. Irakli Martinenko: „[In Stalin’s time] there was no such thing as a systematic use of unacceptable forms of punishment. Namely, crimes were not punished by drastic measures such...

On November 3rd, the Facebook page “Resident”posted a screenshot with the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) logo, which features a photo and an alleged quote of Levan Varshalomidze where he states that he is not only Saakashvili’s comrade-in-arms, but Misha literally lives within him. The screenshot disseminated by the page “Resident” is fabricated. Neither the Facebook...

On October 28th, the Facebook page ‘Samegrelo Times’ published a post about Koba Nakopia, the UNM mayoral candidate of Senaki. According to the description, Nakopia has been appointed director of one of the metallurgical plants in Ukraine, has already bought a ticket to travel to Kyiv and plans to move to Ukraine on November 4th. The information...