On March 9th, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user posted a video with the following description: “After the Dispersal.” The video shows several injured people lying on the floor. The date of the video creates the impression that it was taken after the dispersal of the protests held in Tbilisi on the evening of March 8th....

On March 4-5th, 2023, Russian propaganda media outlets Pravda.ru, Российская газета and kherson-news.ru, as well as Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4) and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4) Facebook accounts published posts, according to which Public display of Ukrainian flags in Israel is prohibited by law, otherwise, the fine is 10,000 Israeli shekels. Some of the...

Since February 21st, 2023, Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6) have been disseminating information about Pope Francis, claiming that the Pope said that paedophilia is a mysterious disease and we should not condemn those who suffer from it; instead, we should recognize that God loves paedophiles, he did not create them for no reason and has a...

On February 28th, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook users, as well as a Russian-language page Newsweek_VL and individual Facebook profiles (1, 2, 3), published a screenshot of the tweet of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. The screenshot shows that Musk has replied to a tweet related to the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, saying that the city...

On February 24th, 2023, a video under the name “Unknown World News” was published on the Facebook page “i ucnobi“, which featured a video segment of the discussion between former adviser of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Oleksii Arestovych, and Russian lawyer and human rights activist, Mark Feygin. The following comment by Arestovych...

On February 27th, 2023, Georgian (1,2), as well as Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3), published a screenshot of a tweet posted on the official Twitter account of the US Consulate in Milan. The tweet, in which the flag of Nazi Germany can be seen behind the flag of Ukraine, is accompanied by the following...

On February 25-26th, 2023, photos depicting the meeting of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the President of the US, Joe Biden, in Kyiv went viral on social networks and media. Russian propaganda outlets (Известия, lenta.ru, ria.ru, aif.ru, topnews.ru, riafan.ru, fedprss.ru) and individual Facebook accounts (1, 2) wrote that the president of Ukraine has...

On February 26th, 2023, the propaganda media outlet mk.ru, as well as the Georgian and Russian-language social media users (1,3) have been circulating the screenshot of the Russian-language service of “Radio Liberty”. According to the caption, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said: “Zelenskyy’s widow will be able to get US citizenship in an...

After the launch of the full-scale military aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the amount of disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war in the Georgian and Russian-language Internet space has skyrocketed. In the framework of Facebook’s fact-checking program, “Myth Detector” has been monitoring Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Georgian social media since February 2022, identifying more...

On February 21st, 2023, in connection with Joe Biden’s visit to Warsaw, the Russian-language and Georgian-language (1, 2, 3) Facebook accounts shared a video showing several people getting off the plane and one of them rolling down. According to the description, the footage shows Joe Biden rolling down a flight of stairs while getting off...

On February 18th, 2023, a Georgian language Facebook account published a photo of a Chocolate Bar. The package is marked with a small black ribbon and the inscription “Death to Alyoshka” [Смерть Алёшки]. The coat of arms of Ukraine is depicted on the right corner of the chocolate packaging. According to the post, the chocolate...

On January 30th, 2022, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defence forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, claim at a briefing that “in the course of the special operation,” the Russian military obtained more than 20,000 documents related to the creation of components of biological weapons...