Activists gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on November 8 to protest ballot rigging and demand the resignation of CEC chair Tamar Zhvania, as well as holding of snap elections. Riot police dispersed the rally using water cannons. Like during previous rallies, pro-government trolls again intensified their efforts amid protests, trying to discredit the...

On November 17, an interview with lieutenant general Guram Nikoleishvili, a majoritarian candidate from the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia in the 2020 Parliamentary Elections, was published on the webpage of Georgia and the World. The interview was titled “Guram Nikoleishvili: Victory of Democrats in the U.S.A. means that grants worth millions will again be issued, the...

Thousands of protesters led by opposition leaders and civic activists gathered outside the Parliament building on November 8, 2020 to declare mistrust to the October 31 parliamentary elections and demand snap elections. Number of citizens attending the rally has triggered controversy. Commenting on the rally, members of the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed that quite...

On November 11, a Facebook user Mia Million published a video of the show Tucker Carlson Tonight from August 25, 2020, dubbed in Georgian. Tucker Carlson, a journalist, criticizes restrictions adopted due to the pandemic and suspects that the security standards actually aim to fearmonger and control people. The video especially emphasizes the mandatory mask rule. Tucker Carlson: “Here’s...

On November 7, News Front Georgia, a pro-Kremlin online media outlet, published an article headlined “A story of an absolutely unbelievable, unprecedented and undeclared genocide of the 21st century!!! The story is based on the post published by Facebook user Giorgi Abashidze in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the article has an evaluative nature and it criticizes...

On November 6, abcnews.com.ge published a news article titled “Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Unexpected Decision has Become Public Just Now! I Would Like to Calm You Down, Brothers…”. The article, based on a confidential source, indicates that Bidzina Ivanishvili plans to allocate up to one billion lari for the health and economy sectors. His decision is positively assessed in...

On October 29, therapist Nona Aghdgomelashvili published a post on her account, where she notes that World Health Organization used so-called Drosten tests as a basis for infection-indicators and announced pandemic right afterward. In reality, according to the post, Drosten tests don’t work and it shows false-positive results. Nona Aghdgomelashvili’s post cites the example of the Tanzanian...

On November 4, a Facebook page „ვაი ბიძიკო“ (Vai bidziko) published a video titled “How Saakashvili Refers to the Georgian Nation”. In the first part of the video, a footage with TV Pirveli logo shows Saakashvili saying: “Forget Saakashvili’s name and surname… You are all cruel, non-Georgians, non-humans.”. In the next footage, the former President of Georgia...

“MediaCritic” – Georgian National Communications Commission’s web portal – about which “Myth Detector” had been reporting before, dedicated the most of its publications in the pre-election period to the scrutiny of the media outlets with critical editorial policies towards the government; while pro-government media outlets’ editorial policies were only touched upon symbolically. At the same...

On October 29, a pro-Kremlin online media outlet News Front published an article titled ”Position of a Famous Astrologist about the COVID-Histeria that Possessed the Entire World”. The article comes with a video statement of a Russian astrologist, Pavel Sviridov, where he claims that coronavirus has been disseminated via the emissions of aircrafts. In the beginning, he...

On November 1, online media outlet “Marshallpress” published information with the following headline “Nika Melia’s “Hoax” – how the “fox” kept the tossed bracelet “. According to the information, on November 1, after Nika Melia tossed the electronic monitoring bracelet required for the probation as a form of protest during the rally outside of the parliament, this...

On October 22-23, 2020 online media outlet News Front Georgia and Facebook page “სტალინი” (Stalin) published Givi Berdzenishvili’s interview about Stalin’s achievements for Georgia. According to his statement, Sochi was never a part of Georgia, whereas there was no such thing as Stalin’s repressions, and the Georgian population amounted to 5,5 million under Stalin’s rule. Givi Berdzenishvili’s...