On June 4, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a post with the following description: “It’s been two nights already that in Partis, the Eiffel Tower is illuminated in the colours of the Russian and Belarusian flags…” The post is accompanied by two photos of the Eiffel Tower, one showing the tower lit up in...

On May 28-29, 2023, the Facebook page “Georgia First,” which is affiliated with Vato Shakarishvili, the founder of the movement “Ai Ia,” as well as Georgian (1, 2, 3) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3) disseminated the video featuring American Senator Lindsey Graham’s during his visit to Kyiv, meeting the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr...

On June 1,  2023, the website of the news agency “Tbilisi 24” published an article which features an alleged statement of Kelly Degnan, the United States ambassador to Georgia. According to the article, Degnan states that she is shocked to see the monument of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin at Freedom Square in Tbilisi...

The critical speech delivered by the President of Georgia at the ceremony dedicated to Georgia’s Independence Day on May 26, 2023, was followed by a discreditation campaign pursued by anonymous Facebook pages linked to the incumbent “Georgian Dream” party. However, the degree of the content used for the campaign on the same pages slowed down...

On May 25, 2023, Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3) published a video, which, according to them, shows Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The person shown in the video is wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes. The authors of the post claim that this is how Zaluzhnyi looks like after...

On May 23, Russian state-owned news agency, RIA Novosti published an article claiming that the Ukrainian medical service was clandestinely extracting organs from the bodies of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The outlet quotes an anonymous source, who claims that among the medical staff of the military hospital in Kherson, there are personnel...

On May 30, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) published a social media card, according to which “Tbilisi City Hall will reward every hundredth girl who walks without a bra for creating a positive mood.” The photo features the logo of the Georgian Public Broadcaster. The information disseminated under the name of the Georgian Public...

On May 30, the Facebook page of “TVImedi” published a post, the description of which features the following quote from the French publication France24 of March 8, 2022: “President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he is no longer pressing for NATO membership for Ukraine, a delicate issue that was one of the reasons for Russia to...

On May 19 and 29, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user published two posts about the resumption of direct flights between Russia and Georgia. According to the post published on May 19, per Lithuania’s position, the restoration of flights to Russia is a deviation from the European course, in response to which the author states that...

In the recent period, information about the investment platforms created by the initiative of the political leaders of Armenia and Moldova has become rather rampant on social media. In the post featuring the image of Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, published by the Facebook page Luxura, we read that any social media user can...

On May 24, 2023, the Facebook page “Haylee Barajas” published a Russian-language video about the relations between Russia and Georgia, which states that Putin and Lavrov have revealed the shocking truth. The video talks about the reunification of Germany, arguing that the Soviet Union officially signed the termination of Germany’s occupied status while the US...

On May 22, 2023, a Facebook user published a video of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, saying the following: “I just want to first congratulate Prigozhin on a terrific win last night in Ukraine, in what was a very competitive battle.” According to the author of the post, Blinken’s statement is related to...