On September 15th, 2022, Georgian and Russian-speaking Facebook users (1 2, 3, 4, 5) published a video showing a church in which beds, household items, boxes and garbage. The posts claim that “Ukrainian Nazis” turned the church of Izium into a warehouse. The video of the church is circulating with a false description. In fact,...

On September 13th, Georgian-speaking Facebook users disseminated the claim that Ukrainians arrested all Russian language teachers in the Kharkiv district, regardless of their nationality. The reports claim that those arrested face 12 years of imprisonment. The claim that all Russian language teachers were arrested in Ukraine, regardless of nationality, is false. The Vice Prime Minister...

On September 13th, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users shared a few-second video of US President Joe Biden and Pope Francis. In the video, Biden addresses the Pope as follows: “In America, you are a famous African-American baseball player.” The next frame of the video shows a female translator who, according to the credits, addresses the Pope...

On September 6th, 2022, a Russian-language Facebook user published a photo with the caption: “The first personal computer in the world was not created by the American company Apple in 1975, but by Arsen Anatolyevich Gorokhov, a Soviet scientist from Omsk, in 1968.” The claim voiced in the post is false. Information about Gorokhov’s patent...

On September 6th, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users disseminated the information that starting October 1st, women who are old enough to be conscripted to the army will be banned from leaving Ukraine. The post is accompanied by a video in which a woman, presumably living in Ukraine, claims she has packed her bags and is leaving...

On September 8-9th, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6) have been disseminating the information that the Ukrainian Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Petro Vrublevsky, left the country at the request of the Kazakh authorities. Lawyer Irakli Zakareishvili additionally asserted that the ambassador was given only a few hours to leave the country, and he flew to Poland....

On September 5th, 2022, while speaking about the 6th International Conference in Tbilisi, Marika Kublashvili, the anchor of Alt-Info, noted that Laura Thornton, the former head of the Georgia office of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), has been fighting since 2014 for African migrants to enter Georgia freely. According to Kublashvili, Thornton discussed this in...

On September 5-6, Tbilisi hosted the sixth annual International Conference – “Glory to Ukraine!” The organizers and hosts of the event were the McCain Institute, George Bush Institute and the Economic Policy Research Center. The theme of this year’s conference was Ukraine, as the participants held discussions on the present and future of Ukraine and...

On September 1st, in a livestream published on his Facebook page, Georgian blogger Beka Vardosanidze talked about increased prices for gas, electricity and food in Europe. Based on the Daily Mail, Vardosanidze showed a photo collage indicating the prices of various products in the UK. According to him, “due to gas inflation,” prices in Great...

On August 31st, 2022, the pro-Kremlin Georgian online outlet “Georgia and World” published the comment of Russian political scientist Andrey Suzdaltsev regarding Ukraine and Poland. According to Suzdaltsev, the Poles are “trying to seize everything” in Ukraine; they are buying land, they are also buying grain at a 50% discount in order to sell it...

On July 4th, 2022,  Georgian-language Facebook published a post claiming that the Dutch government decided to reduce the number of livestock in the country by 70-95% under the pretext of reducing nitrogen oxide, giving the farmers an ultimatum to kill the livestock or move it to another country. The post is accompanied by an English-language...

Since August 28th, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)  have been disseminating information about the interview of Anthony Fauci, the medical adviser to the US president, claiming that he admitted that experiments prohibited in the United States were carried out in bio laboratories in Ukraine and China (including tests on the coronavirus), and that the...