On September 20, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a post in which, based on a Polish publication, he writes that the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, canceled the meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Also, according to the user, the President of Brazil, Luiz Silva, and the President of the USA, Joe Biden, refused to meet...

On September 14, a Georgian-language Facebook user published the following alleged quote by Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Russia-Ukraine war: “Stop blaming China. China is not helping Russia, but if it decides to do so, not even God can help you. Almost the whole world helps Ukraine. If we see the danger of a...

On September 9-10,2023, Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook accounts published a video depicting the movement of military vehicles with the flag of Azerbaijan. According to the posts, the vehicles are headed in the direction of Armenia, and it is noteworthy that they feature the letter “Z.” One of the Russian-language Facebook accounts specifies that this video...

On September 11, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post about former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to Lviv. According to the post, Boris Johnson was awarded the title of an honorary doctor by the University of Lviv, and during the ceremony, the university leadership and the former prime minister gave a fascist...

On September 7, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The post is accompanied by a screenshot of an article by “Reuters,” which reviews the statements made by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the European Parliament. The author of the post claims that Romanian Minister Angel Tîlvăr called on...

On September 1, 2023, the ruling Georgian Dream party initiated the impeachment proceedings against President Salome Zourabichvili. Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the party, stated that the President had grossly violated the Georgian Constitution and had planned a series of foreign visits without the government’s consent. The issue of Salome Zourabichvili’s impeachment triggered discussions and...

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian government-controlled Twitter accounts, including the accounts of Russian Embassies abroad, have become one of the most active tools to disseminate Kremlin disinformation. In the process of verifying fake news related to the ongoing war in Ukraine by Russian propaganda media and various users on...

In August, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) spread information about the death of an American general. According to Nona Sharabidze’s post, American Major General Anthony Potts was killed in a Russian missile attack on the NATO headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and a Russian-speaking Facebook user writes that Potts died in a Russian missile...

On August 23, 2023, a Facebook post about actor Jim Carrey and Hollywood went viral, stating that Carrey exposed the Hollywood elite. According to the Post, in an interview in 2018, Jim Carrey said that children are eaten at Christmas in Hollywood. In 2018-2020, Russian-language Facebook users voiced the same claim as well (1, 2)....

On August 23, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook page published a screenshot of the Facebook post allegedly published by Nika Gvaramia, the founder of “Mtavari Channel.” The post alleges that Gvaramia published a photo of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian private military company “Wagner,” with the caption “R.I.P my friend! bye bye Zhenia” The...

On August 19, 2023, Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook users published a screenshot of an English-language article titled “Troop deaths and injuries in Ukraine War near 500,000, US Officials say.” According to the description attached to the distributed posts, Western publications, the world’s leading newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters, CBC, and...

On August 15, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3) shared footage from the cartoon “The Simpsons,” in which the entire city is seen on fire. According to one of the authors, this is a foreshadowing by the Simpsons showing a directed energy weapon to cause a fire in Hawaii. The widely circulated posts contain...