After the imposition of sanctions over the mineral water company “Borjomi” over its holder – the Russian “Alpha Group” and its founder, Mikhail Fridman, opposition discrediting and anti-liberal Facebook accounts have started disseminating the information that the company was sold to Russians by Mamuka Khazaradze, the leader of the opposition party “Lelo.” The information was...

On April 7th, 2022,  while speaking about the transit of the Russian natural gas to Europe through Ukraine, Giorgi Kardava, the secretary-general of the “Conservative Movement” party, told the pro-Kremlin channel “Alt-Info” that Ukraine has pretensions against Georgia, while being engaged with Russian oil trade itself. Giorgi Kardava: “They did not cut off the gas...

On April 8th, 2022, the Facebook user “Fantina” published a post accompanied by a photo of an American general, claiming that “the American military instructor, who used to train the Azov Battalion, was kidnapped. The photo shows the Commander of NATO Allied Land Command from the United States – Lieutenant General Roger L. Cloutier Jr....

On April 2nd, up to 280 dead bodies were found buried in mass graves in the liberated Ukrainian city of Bucha. The information was reported to AFP by the city’s mayor – Anatoliy Fedoruk. In addition, AFP reporters found at least 20 bodies in civilian clothes on one of the streets of  Bucha. The Ukrainian...

Following the end of February 2022, the Russia-Ukraine war became the new focus of Georgian anti-vaxxers as they started disseminating Russian-backed conspiracy theories and disinformation. Facebook accounts that oppose vaccination, on the one hand, seek to justify Russian military intervention in Ukraine, presenting the war as an operation to free Ukraine of nationalists and perversion,...

On March 23, the Facebook page “Azimut” and the Facebook profile “Fantina Georgian” published an image from the animation “The Simpsons,” claiming that it depicted another prediction of the Simpsons about the Russian-Ukrainian war. he photos were also posted by the Facebook profile of BaႵar Zaalishvili and the Facebook page Sad but True. In addition...

On March 23rd, the Facebook user “Fantina Georgian” published a post about the interests of Jews in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. According to the description, the Jews are actually behind the war, and their goal is to make Ukraine a new “heavenly Jerusalem.” Several photos accompany the post: the first shows a...

Over the course of the last couple days, a few-second-long video of the speech of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been actively disseminated on social media. In the video, Zelenskyy says that he advises everyone to use drugs, but not heavy drugs and taking drugs is the mode in which we live, and...

On March 9th, Facebook user Irakli Zakareishvili published a post based on the press service of the Russian Chemical and Radiological Defense Forces, claiming that one of the species of “Marmorated Stink Bug” – Halyomorpha Halys, which has had a devastating impact on the ecosystem and the economy, was created in Lugar Lab of Tbilisi....

On January 24th, Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva published an article on her blog dilyana.bg entitled: “Documents expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine and Georgia”. The English-language article claims that 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,100 in Georgia were involved in a potentially deadly experiment funded by the Pentagon and that their deaths...

On January 28th, Facebook user “Fantina” published a photo, which allegedly depicts Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada. The photo features Justin Trudeau wearing a dress designed for women’s beauty pageant, wearing a crown and holding a bouquet. In addition, Trudeau’s sash features the following inscription: “Miss Take.” The disseminated image has been altered...