On October 30, Facebook user Manana Beradze posted a video featuring riot police bursting into the Metro Station and detaining passengers. A description accompanying the video reads that the incident was linked to face masks. It becomes clear from the comments that initially the author indicated Paris as the place of incident but changed it to Seoul...

A clickbait website 24news.com.ge published an article titled “Bidzina Ivanishvili Will Cover Debts – Great News that Just Became Public” on October 14. The article mentions that, according to Mtavari Channel, Georgian Dream drafted a bill which would write off debts from citizens. The article does not mention details about the content of the bill or the date of its...

On October 21, the Facebook page “შუბლის ძარღვ გაწყვეტილები” (People with No Sense of Shame) published a video with a description: “People’s reaction to Mikheil Saakashvili’s appearance on ‘Chat Alternative’. Video shows how mostly underage Georgian users connect with the former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili via video call. On October 24, the page disseminated one more video, where one of the leaders of the...

On October 15, web-page “publishers.ge” published an article stating that coronavirus pandemic doesn’t exist and it was invented by Masonry to reduce the world population. The article uses the case of Iraq as an argument and argues that the virus doesn’t exist in Iraq since there was no need for it there. Astrologer Mikheil Tsagareli’s...

A Facebook page “რურუა გმირია” (Rurua is a hero) using a photo of Giorgi Rurua, one of the shareholders of pro-opposition Mtavari Arkhi TV, was created on October 13, 2020. The page involves only one sponsored post depicting Giorgi Rurua and Merab Kostava, Georgian dissident and one of the leaders of the National-Liberation Movement in...

On September 30, Facebook user Shore Shanidze published Nino Bregadze’s post on her personal profile, according to which World Bank has established the pandemic period until 2025. Post also discusses World Bank financing current experiments in developing countries and Georgia’s participation in it. Shanidze also writes that they have been working on a coronavirus vaccine...

On September 29, a fake Facebook user Kote Afxazi shared a post by another Facebook user Nina Marji in five public Facebook groups with the following caption: “Thousands of doctors Rallied in Vienna in solidarity with those doctors who are protesting COVID-scam!!! Shame on Georgian doctors!!!!” Nina Marji’s post was initially shared on September 19...

On September 11, 2020, News Front Georgia, an online outlet, published an article headlined “Turkey plans to speed up the repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia.” Shota Apkhaidze, editor of the online media outlet, claims that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia to cover all expenses for the resettlement of...

On September 18, Facebook page “საქართველოს იმედი” (Hope of Georgia) posted a video, showing the ants carrying the icon of Jesus Christ. The video has a caption: “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” The video has gone viral and as of September 21, it has 14,000 shares. Three minutes after the video was...

The  7-13 September volume of the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” published an interview with the chairperson of the organization “For Our Rights”, Tamaz Bakuridze, who claimed that “too many” streets are named after different sheikhs in Batumi. Tamaz Bakuridze: Turks having a serious influence in Adjara today is a fact. There are more Turkish boarding schools than...

On September 8, member of Alliance of Patriots Giorgi Lomia discussed the poisoning of Russian opposition-member Alexei Navalny on the program “For Everybody to Hear” of Night Studio, “Obiektivi” TV. According to him, it was confirmed that Alexei Navalny wasn’t poisoned by “Novichok”. On September 8, “Sakinformi” published the statement from one of the creators...

On the 4th of September, 2020, in the Program “Analytics” of “Alt-info”, hosts Giorgi Kardava and Zura Makharadze discussed Turkey’s invasion in Northern Syria. According to Zura Makharadze, Turkey’s invasion in Northern Syria and violation of international law wasn’t followed by sanctions, whereas, U.N Humanitarian Aid can no longer be delivered in Syria. Alt-info, 5th...