An AI-generated photo of King Charles III wearing a pink jacket and shorts, eating ice cream has been widely circulated on Facebook. The photo is rather realistic and, at first glance, it creates the impression that it is authentic. In fact, this and several other similar AI-generated photos were published by Scottish social media artist...

On August 8, 2023, in the “Alternative Vision” program of the pro-Kremlin TV channel “Alt-Info,” the founder, Konstantine Morgoshia, spoke about the Russo-Georgian war. According to Morgoshia, all the villages and gorges that Georgia lost after the August war were exchanged for Mikheil Saakashvili to remain as president, which was also confirmed in the book...

On August 6, 2023, Koba Kusiani, the chairman of the “Euro-Asian Alliance” organization, published a post on Facebook, according to which the father of the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, Eugen Schwab, was a member of the German Nazi Party and the Third Reich and a director of the industrial company Escher...

On August 4, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3), including blogger Beka Vardosanidze, published photos of journalists of “TV Pirveli” and “Alt-Info,” who were covering the disaster in Shovi. According to the authors of the posts, “TV Pirveli” journalist Nanuka Kajaia laughs while covering the disaster, while “Alt-Info” journalist Sofia Javelidze “barely holds her...

On July 31 and August 2, 2023, Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook accounts shared a July 23 story by the Belarusian state-controlled media Belarus 1 about the alleged illegal trade of Ukrainian children and their organs. An excerpt of the story is available on the Facebook page of Belarus 1, while the full version was published...

On August 7, 2021, an anonymous Georgian-language Facebook account posted several quotes ascribed to Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of the “Georgian Dream” party in the Facebook group “Winner Irakli Garibashvili 41” The following quote is attached to one of Kobakhidze’s photos: “Wild pork meat in the plastic bags does not spoil for three days. This is...

On July 31 and August 1, 2023, Georgian (1)  and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1, 2, 3) shared videos and photos of an alleged banner with the following inscription in English: “Stop Zelenskyy, Stop War.” According to the posts, this banner was placed in Japan. The disseminated video is altered, while the original video was shot...

3.08.23 Update: A post by the Facebook page “I Ucnobi” was added to the article. The post was deleted after labellig it as false. On August 1-2, 2023, Facebook users (1,2,3,4,5)  including Dimitri Samkharadze, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party, as well as the Facebook page of the “Conservative Movement in Rustavi,” shared...

On July 24, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account published an excerpt from an interview with the actor Jim Caviezel from the movie “Sound of Freedom.” In the description of the post, the author claims that the film depicts a real international system of child trafficking, which involves high-ranking people, the so-called elites. The author also...

On July 29-30, Georgian– and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Facebook accounts published an alleged cover of the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” dated August 2, 2023. The cover features a caricature of Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan, who refused to shake hands with Russian fencer Anna Smirnova at the Fencing World Championships in Milan....

On July 27 and 28, 2023, Georgian and Russian-language (1, 2) Facebook accounts started circulating a video of The Independent, in which a man named Gregg Wallace tells us about the company “Good Harvest,” where meat is allegedly produced from the cells of the human body. According to the disseminated posts, Gregg Wallace praised the...

On July 27 and 28, 2023, lawyer Irakli Zakareishvili and anonymous Facebook account Ragnar Lotbneli published a photo of Giuli Asalania wearing a pink Alasania dress with the number 69 and human figures depicting the sex pose of the same name. The photo was also distributed in the group Suren Saakian. The photo disseminated on...