On October 1st and 2nd, Georgian (1) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3) started circulating a video that states that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is registered in the U.S. registry of private companies, which means that Ukraine is one of the Washington firms. The video also asks how a government institution can...

On September 29th, 2022, the Russian-language outlet Ukraina.ru published an article titled: “Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: Hasids banned from a gas station.” According to the article, Hasidic Jews were refused service at the OKKO gas station near Yavoriv, Lviv region. Several Facebook users (1,2,3,4) also published the same video with identical descriptions in Georgian and Russian....

On July 8th, 2022, the Facebook page of ‘Mikheil Ukrainologist’ published a 38-second video of Giorgi Vashadze, the chairman of “Strategy Agmashenebeli”, visiting the “Secret Envelope” program. In the excerpt, the hostess asks Vashadze what the director of the sports store in Kutaisi used to call him and his brother, to which Vashadze’s answer is...

On September 25-28th, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3) published videos depicting Jews arriving in Ukraine. According to the accounts, Ukraine was emptied of Ukrainians, while “Ashkenazi Khazar Jews” began to immigrate to Ukraine en masse to build the “Heavenly Jerusalem” by 2030-2050. The video is claimed to prove that the Jews urged Ukrainians and Russians to...

On September 18-19th, 2022, Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12) have been disseminating information about the post published on the Telegram channel of Andrii Yermak, adviser to the administration of the President of Ukraine. According to the claims, Ukraine announced to the world that mass graves of Ukrainians tortured and killed by the Russians were found in...

On September 26th, an article titled “In Kherson, voter turnout in the referendum exceeded 50%” was published on the website and Facebook page of the pro-Kremlin Alt-Info. The article claimed that according to international observers, the voter turnout in the referendum in Kherson exceeded 50%, meaning that the referendum is legitimate. On September 24th, Georgian-language...

A video showing protesters marching towards a governmental building and taking down a flag has gone viral on social media. The descriptions accompanying the video claim that during a protest in Rome, Italians took down the EU flag from the EU office building and hoisted the flag of Italy instead. During September 24-27, the video...

In June-September 2022, Georgian and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Facebook accounts have been actively disseminating a video taken on the beach, showing dozens of people burying their heads in the sand. The authors of the post claim that this is a protest organized by environmental activist Greta Thunberg against CO2 emissions, and...

Since September 17th, Georgian and Russian-language outlets (1,2,3) and Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5) have been actively disseminating information about the article of the Swedish publication Nya Dagbladet. According to the article, a leaked document from the Rand Corporation, an American think tank, confirms that the United States was planning a war and energy crisis in Europe....

On September 19th, 2022, Russian state-controlled media, including Channel One, РИА Новости, TASS, Правда, Московский Комсомолец, Sputnik-Abkhazia reported that US officials have admitted conducting biological experiments on low-income citizens and patients of psychiatric clinics in Ukraine. Russian and Belarusian media also reported that the US admitted exporting pathogenic strains from Ukraine. Russian media has disseminated...

Since the beginning of September, photos of the cover of the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” have been widely distributed on social networks (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). The caricature cover shows French President Emmanuel Macron trying to disperse the protesting fellow citizens with a water jet, calling them...

On September 18th, the Russian-speaking Facebook account Сергей Дар published a post claiming that on March 2nd, 2022, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution with 141 votes calling on Russia to end the “special military operation”, and on August 25th, 2022, only 58 countries supported the same resolution, which is only 30% of the...