On November 18th, Facebook users Shako Kutchashvili and Shako Chachanidze posted a few seconds-long videos depicting the mother of the third president of Georgia, Professor Giuli Alasania. In the video, Alasania talks about his son, Mikheil Saakashvili, saying she was trying to raise him to be a decent person, but he “grew up like that.” Alasania’s conversation ends at...

On November 11th, an article titled “Discrediting the State”: How is the anti-vaccination movement lobbied in Russia” waspublished on the website Kremlin propaganda media Россия Сегодня (Russia Today). The article says that the primary online platform in the country used for the anti-vaccine lobby is the Russian-language petition site CitizenGo, headquartered in Spain. In an interview...

Update: In the original version of the article, Vakhtang Gorgasali was named as one of the descendants of the Parnavazid dynasty. According to some sources, Gorgasali indeed belonged to the Parnavazid dynasty, although it should be noted that his historian, Juansher, refers to him as a representative of the Khosrovid dynasty. On November 11th, 2021, the online publication “Sputnik...

The arrest of the former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, became the subject of scrutiny for several members of the European Parliament. On November 12th, MEP Anna Fotyga arrived in Georgia to visit the ex-president Saakashvili in prison, but she was denied. The Minister of Justice, Rati Bregadze, named the Georgian Criminal Codeas the reason behind the refusal, asserting that...

On October 22nd, 2021, Zura Makharadze, one of the hosts at “Alt-Info,”discussed the trade agreement signed between Georgia and the European Union. Makharadze noted that the agreement only allows Georgia to export only specific products in the EU, namely honey, nuts and wine, in limited quantities. He further claimed the terms of the agreement do not...

On November 15th, 2021, “Simartlis Droa” [Time for Truth], a Facebook page that has been suspected of discrediting the opposition on a regular basis, published a post claiming that the EU Ambassador Carl Hartzell had responded to a disinformation story aired on “Mtavari Arkhi.” According to the post, the false stories spread by the “Mtavari Arkhi” and...

Conspiracies around climate change have recently resurfaced in Georgian social media. Namely, a Facebook user published apost claiming that much like the global pandemic, the alerts around global warming and climate change are fabrications created by the world elites to impose control mechanisms on the population. By using artificially created hunger and fires, the world elites...

On November 10th, the Facebook pagesQuotes of great men and Office disseminated two commercials in the name of Gazprom, claiming that the Russian company offers the Georgian citizens a monthly salary worth thousands of dollars. One of the commercialsstated that currently there were only 14 vacant places were left at Gazprom; therefore, the interested people should hurry. The second...

On November 9th, the Facebook user Ana Chankotadze published a past addressing the Prime Minister – “Bravo Prime Minister, Bravo, our Prime Minister”. The post is accompanied by a screenshot with a photo of the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, Kelly Degnan, stating that there are rumours around the alleged expulsion of Kelly Degnan from Georgia due to...

On November 9th, a Facebook page “National News” positioning as a media outlet published the results of an alleged survey conducted by a research organization “EMB-research” on the public support of Mikheil Saakashvili. The survey results claimed that 82% of the Georgian population is in terms with the imprisonment of Saakashvili, 15% demands his immediate release, while 3% abstains...

On November 8th, a clickbait website Onews.ge published an article with the headline: “Big scandal! Did Misha Escape from Prison? He is neither in Gori nor in the hospital; he got on a private plane and flew to the West?! ”The material includes the post of Zura Batiashvili, a researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and...

On November 6th, the Facebook page “Dzala Simartleshia” [The Power Lies within in the Truth] posted a photo with the logo of the “TV Pirveli,” claiming that the members of the European Parliament joined the hunger strike of Elene Khoshtaria. The photo is accompanied by the following caption: “I will not be the first or the last...