On January 7, 2024, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post claiming that a secret order was issued in Ukraine that applies to men between the ages of 18 and 60, including those who left the country to avoid military conscription. According to the post, they are given 15 days to return to Ukraine, otherwise,...

On January 8, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a photo of a map, which, according to the description, was sent from one of the bars in the so-called green zone in Baghdad, where the map is used as a table cover. On the map, we see that the location and names of the countries have...

On January 7, 2024, Bondo Mdzinarashvili, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Georgian Public Broadcaster, published a post about the icon of the St. Matrona of Moscow and Stalin displayed in the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi. According to Mdzinarashvili, in 1941, Stalin met with Matrona Nikonova, and with her advice, the...

On December 30, 2023, pro-government media outlets “Imedi TV” (edited version), POSTV, and Pia.ge published a quote by Salome Samadashvili, an opposition member of the parliament and the representative of the “Lelo” fraction, on the granting of EU candidate status to Georgia. According to the mentioned quote, Samadashvili calls the decision of the European Union...

Following the emergence of the Russia-Ukraine war, fabricated videos under the name of various well-known media outlets have been periodically circulating on social media, which mainly concern the developments in Ukraine and the West. “Myth Detector” and other fact-checking organizations identified 4 videos with the same characteristics; All of them share one main common feature...

On December 5, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post about the alleged trade in organs of Ukrainian soldiers. According to the author of the post, wounded Ukrainian servicemen are taken to the US Ramstein military base in Germany for emergency medical care, but then their organs are sold on the global black market. As...

On December 14, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a video claiming that children from the Disney Cruise were taken to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. Therefore, the author of the video encourages people to avoid watching Disney products at all. The claim that Disney took children to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island as part of its cruises is...

On December 17, 2023, Shota Martinenko, the host of the pro-Kremlin “Alt-Info” TV, as well as Georgian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3, 4) disseminated the quote of Jens Spahn, a member of the German Bundestag, that the country has to send illegal immigrants in Georgia, Moldova, Ghana or Rwanda. should be sent. The authors of...

On December 12, 2023, the European Commission presented the “Defence of Democracy” package, which includes several proposals. Among them is a proposal for a directive “on transparency of interest representation carried out on behalf of third countries.” According to the proposal, the aim of the directive is to harmonize EU-wide laws on transparency and democratic...

On December 12, 2023, an anonymous Facebook account published a Russian-language video of a conversation between French President Emmanuel Macron and French politician Marine Le Pen, with Georgian subtitles. In the video, we hear how Macron claims that they don’t need Russian natural gas, and in response to Le Pen’s question about where he plans...

On December 12, the Georgian-language Facebook account “Eduard Jishkariani” published a post claiming that after Zelenskyy’s speech in the US Senate, Republican Senator Thom Tillis said in a conversation with CNN that America cannot help Ukraine with money because Ukrainian officials will buy yachts with this money. The author of the post claims that he...

On December 6, Dmitry Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, during his speech on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine at the UN Security Council meeting, claimed that a formation similar to the Hitler Youth is being formed in Ukraine. According to Polyanskiy, the first training of mobilized 17-year-old orphans,...