On November 7th, the Facebook page “The APX” shared a link to an article about the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili. The description of the posts and the actual content of the article differ from each other: the post is accompanied by the caption “Tragic end today for Salome Zurabishvili”, while the link redirects the...

On November 3rd, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users disseminated the information that Ukraine used the humanitarian corridor agreed upon for the transfer of wheat for the drone attack on Sevastopol, and that is why Russia left the agreement related to the export of wheat from Ukraine. Published posts are accompanied by a screenshot of the Russian...

On November 1st, 2022, Pro-Kremlin media outlet Georgia and World shared claims that former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is a suspect in the 26 September Nord Stream explosion. According to the article, a phone hack revealed Truss sent a text to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken a few minutes before the explosion saying...

On November 1st, 2022, in the program of pro-Kremlin TV “Alt-Info”, the head of the Rustavi office of the “Conservative Movement”, Merab Gigan, spoke about the 12-point recommendation established by the European Commission for Georgia. According to Gigani, all 12 points envisage the change of the government and its replacement by the “United National Movement.”...

In late October 2022, a number of Georgian Facebook accounts shared (1, 2, 3, 4) an image by the Syrian artist Tamman Azzam reconstructing the Statue of Liberty from the rubble of a destroyed building in Syria. According to the authors of these posts, the artwork is the artist’s message to America that “This is...

Updated: Goga Khaindrava’s statement about Congressman Jamie Raskin was also reported by the Georgian Public Broadcaster on November 1, 2022.  On October 28-31st, Georgian pro-Kremlin (Alt-Info, Georgia and World) and Russian propaganda media (Russia Today, Московский комсомолец, Взгляд) reported that the US Congressman Jamie Raskin had declared that Russia should be destroyed because it is...

On 18 October 2022, a Georgian Facebook user shared a video with the caption “COVID-19 vaccine — China vaccine disaster.” In the post, the user claims the video shows the result of “the global medical experiment.” The video shared is a compilation of shots purportedly showing Chinese citizens collapsing as a result of the COVID-19...

On October 20th, 2022, a Georgian Facebook user published a video showing a notebook with the national logo of Ukraine. The person recording the video points to a page with the date – February 26th, below of which one can see the inscription – “The day of the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine”. The...

On October 27-28th, Georgian and Russian-language (1,2,3,4,5,6) Facebook accounts shared photos of a map that shows Kherson, Zaporozhe and the so-called “People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk” as parts of the Russian Federation. According to the attached description, similar maps appear in Spanish geography textbooks. Following October 27th, pro-Kremlin outlets, including News Front (1,2,3,4), have...

On October 31st, “Alt-Analytics” – a program by the pro-Kremlin TV channel “Alt-Info” aired the monologue of the American TV personality, Tucker Carlson. According to the Georgian translation of Carlson’s monologue, US Senator Jamie Raskin said that Russia is an Orthodox state with traditional values; hence the US should destroy it at any cost. This...

On October 29th, Georgian-language Facebook users published a video of a demonstration held in the Czech Republic. According to the attached description, the video depicts a pro-Russian rally held in Prague attended by half a million people. The video of the rally held in the Czech Republic is being circulated with a partly false description....

On October 2nd, 2022, Kakha Kaladze, the mayor of Tbilisi, awarded Balenciaga’s creative director Demna Gvasalia with the title of honorary citizen of Tbilisi. The event boosted posts directed against Gvasalia on Georgian social media. On October 26th, a Facebook user published a photo of the cover of Elle magazine, which, according to the post’s...