On April 5, Georgian-language Facebook users (1,2) shared a quote from Pope Francis, who allegedly said that “God hates anti-vaxxers” and will punish them. The users claim that the Pope is “the main priest of Lucifer” and during the next pandemic, the World Health Organization will “start a brutal persecution of the unvaccinated.” The quote...

In recent months, along with pro-Kremlin and anti-Western actors, the incumbent “Georgian Dream” party has also been trying to instrumentalize LGBTQI+ topics. In addition to the legislative initiative presented by the “Georgian Dream” on March 25, pro-government media outlets such as – POSTV, TV Imedi, and Pia.ge have been contributing to sowing fear about the...

On April 3-5, a former member of the Parliament of Georgia and analyst Demur Giorkhelidze and Georgian (1, 2, 3) and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1, 2, 3) disseminated a claim that the German government admitted that there was no pandemic. The claim is based on an article from The People’s Voice, linked to the posts. The...

Russian propaganda media (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), as well as Russian (1, 2) and Georgian-language (1) Facebook accounts have been disseminating the information that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, bought Highgrove House from King Charles III. According to the media, the palace was used by Charles III as a country...

On April 4, Georgian media outlets, including pro-government TV company Imedi (1;2;3), POSTV, “Resonance” (1,2), and others reported that the organization “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem) published the core civil society index, which examines the non-governmental sector and “evaluates how firmly and properly civil society organizations fulfill their public mission and duties, how healthy (freely and...

On March 28, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a video showing a tunnel loaded with gold bars. The post mentions that the tunnel is approximately 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) long and connects the Vatican City and Jerusalem, and also claims that gold is stored in the tunnel at a height of 13 meters. Russian and...

On March 31, Facebook user Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) published a photo showing a burger box from the American fast food chain McDonald’s with the inscription “Baphomet” and a small image of Baphomet on its side. The circulated photo gives the impression that McDonald’s has a burger series called “Baphomet.” The Georgian-language...

Update: On April 2, after the article was published, information that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed a law reducing the age limit for mobilization from 27 to 25 years was published on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament. On March 29-30, 2024, a video depicting teenagers sitting on a bus was published by...

On March 27, the Facebook page “Political Satire” published a photo of Nika Melia, one of the leaders of the “Akhali” party, with the quote: “Georgian Dream bribed FIFA so that we could qualify to Euro2024, and as a result, the party could win the elections. This is nothing but dishonesty!” The Facebook page writes...

Following the statement made by Emmanuel Macron that if necessary, he would not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, the Russian propaganda media began actively discrediting the French President. Manipulative texts, fabricated covers, mimes, posts emphasizing the age difference between him and his wife, as well as a conspiracy theory about Brigitte Macron’s alleged sex...

On March 25, 2024, the “Georgian Dream” presented a legislative initiative to the media, which, according to the party’s vision, aims to fight against “pseudo-liberal ideology” and ban “LGBT propaganda.” According to Mamuka Mdinaradze, Executive Secretary of the “Georgian Dream”, the parliamentary majority plans to adopt constitutional amendments for this purpose. The legislative initiative of...

On March 14, 2024, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a post stating that if Georgia were to join the European Union, the organization would stop the work of factories in Georgia and destroy the wine, metallurgy, agriculture, and all other industries, because the current members of the European Union want only products created by them...