A Facebook user Giorgi Giorgi shared a video in the group “ახალი მსოფლიო წესრიგი და კორონა აფიორა!” (New world order and corona fraud) on January 1, 2021. According to the caption of the video, a satanic ritual was carried out in Switzerland in 2016 while opening a railway tunnel – an event attended by various...

On 2 January, a Facebook user, Khatuna Shengelia, posted a message reading that a multicolored badge worn by Giorgi Pkhakadze, a member of the United Nations Secretary-General Independent Accountability Panel, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of World Health Organization, and American philanthropist Bill Gates symbolizes Agenda 2030 while 17 colors on the badge represent 17...

Georgian newspaper Alia released in its November 13-19, 2017 edition a Facebook post by Bakur Svanidze, author of pro-Russian online portal Geworld.ge, where he claims that mainly those persons fell victims to Stalin’s repressions of 1937-1938, who were themselves arresting and shooting, torturing and destructing other innocent people earlier in 1933-1934. According to the data released by...

Disinformation is dangerous and potentially life-threatening as it is shown in the current pandemic. The spread of wrongful treatment methods resulted in multiple hospitalizations and deaths globally. Identifying information as unreliable becomes an important skill in consuming and interacting with media. Especially in countries with younger and less stable democracies such as Georgia, dis- and...

On December 17, 2020, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze, which apparently is a fake profile, published a post about Kutaisi International University funded by Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Cartu Foundation. According to the post, Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, is building not the university, but a high-technology research center in Kutaisi with the key goal...

Georgia has often been hailed as a democratic frontrunner in the Caucasus region. However, since the parliamentary elections end of October 2020, the political situation in Georgia has been fragile. The opposition parties are not willing to accept the outcome of the elections which support a renewed victory of the ruling party “Georgian Dream” and...

On December 10, 2020, News Front, an online media outlet, published an article titled “Russia is our enemy?! – we had been 800,000 before the Treaty of Georgievsk and 5 million in 1991.” News Front refers to Dato Tskipurishvili as the author of the article. The author claims that owing to Russia, the population of Georgia grew...

On December 5, 2020, Facebook user Zviad Gogiashvili posted a video on his page, where he speaks about COVID-19 and questions its origin, diagnosis and vaccines. He claims that PCR tests fail to detect the virus, while autopsies cannot reveal any trace of COVID-19 in human bodies; moreover, nobody but Chinese scientists has ever seen the coronavirus...

On November 30, a journalist of the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” Giorgi Gigauri published a post about gravestones discovered in Kalbajar district on his Facebook account. In his post, Gigauri cites Azerbaijani media that he doesn’t specify and claims that the Armenian gravestone “workshop” was discovered in the Kalbajar district liberated by Azerbaijan. There, they would draw Gregorian crosses,...

On November 24, the online media outlet “Georgia and the World” published an article  “There were Heaps of  Stickers in Khojivank District” by the Journalist Armaz Saneblidze. In the article, the author assesses the visit of U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the simultaneous protest rally of the opposition. Saneblidze mentions U.S. presidential election...

On November 21, 2020, a Facebook page „საერო გაზეთი“ (Secular newspaper) published an interview with Reverend Melchisedech (Elizbar Diakonidze), a priest who serves in Greece. Diakonidze claimed that aside from committing other crimes, Mikheil Saakashvili also gave the citizenship of Georgia to 28,000 Turks in one day, meaning that these people were participating in an...

On November 17, 2020, Georgia and World, a pro-Kremlin online media outlet, published an article headlined “Catholic archbishop speaks out: pandemic has been fabricated for the Great Reset.” The article involves a letter sent by U.S.-based Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano to President Donald Trump on October 25, where the Archbishop calls the coronavirus pandemic a plan of global...