Due to the ongoing threats and the severe harassment faced by fact-checkers in Georgia, the European Fact-Checking Standards Network and the International Fact-Checking Network sent an open letter to the leadership of the European Union. Read that letter here below: Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles High...
On May 30-31, Georgian-language Facebook user and the page “Anti-Liberal Doctrine” disseminated the information that 5 opposition TV channels in Moldova, which submitted incomplete information about funding, will be shut down. According to the comments, Facebook users perceive the information as persecution of opposition media and pressure on independent media. Information about the closure of...
On May 24, during the prime time program of the pro-Kremlin TV broadcaster Sezoni TV, the guest, political scientist Hamlet Chipashvili spoke about the visit of the foreign ministers of the Baltic countries and Iceland to Georgia. According to Chipashvili, diplomats were forced to come to Georgia, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is a representative...
On May 31, 2024, Georgian-language Facebook users published posts (1, 2) accusing Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska of taking children from Ukrainians and selling them to British pedophiles. According to the author of the post, investigative journalist Jonathan Hill published the information in The Austin Crier newspaper. The accusation voiced against Olena Zelenska is false....
On May 29, Georgian-language Facebook users (1, 2) shared a Russian-language video in which the author claims that a person with a disability, a transgender woman with impaired hearing, sang Whitney Houston’s song and won in a German talent show. The author attaches to the post a video of a performance of a woman singing....
On May 27, pro-government media outlets TV Imedi, POSTV – Analytics, Newshub.ge, as well as Facebook accounts published a quote by the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy, Joseph Borrell, on the “Transparency of Foreign Influence” law. The following text can be found on the distributed social media cards: “Some Member States...
On May 26, 2024, the Russian propaganda media Russia Today, Известия, РИА Новости, Sputnik Кыргызстан, as well as in the Georgian pro-government media POS TV, RUSTAVI 2, TIA.GE, PRIMETIME, resonancedaily.com, as well as Georgian-language Facebook accounts, disseminated a quote by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in which he talk about Ukraine’s prospects of NATO integration, saying...
On May 17, Guram Macharashvili, a member of the anti-Western parliamentary party “People’s Power”, said that the amendments to the law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence”, which now makes physical persons subject to the law, were not included in the first, second and third readings. According to Macharashvili, “the law is being read backwards.” The...
On May 24, the official Facebook page of the ruling “Georgian Dream” party published the statement of the political council of the party, in which they respond to the visa restrictions imposed by the US to the representatives of the Georgian government. The statement notes that “the top officials of the two EU candidate countries...
On May 24, the anonymous Facebook account Informational-Analytical Union published a video in which we see citizens throwing colored paint at a person dressed in black. The video is accompanied by the caption: “A liberal sect in agony performed a pagan ritual.” The video is being disseminated manipulatively. The footage does not depict a “pagan...
The five-year presidential term of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expired on May 20. According to the Ukrainian Constitution, the elections were supposed to be held in the last week of March – March 31, but they were postponed due to the ongoing war. In the summer of 2023, the Verkhovna Rada elections planned for October...
On May 20, a Georgian-language Facebook user and a priest shared a video of deacon Aleksandre Galdava, in which he claims that in 2016, the European Convention on Human Rights issued a recommendation to the Georgian government, banning the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia from the right to freely express his opinion in public space. According to...
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