On August 30th, 2021, the U.S. has finished withdrawing its military forces from Afghanistan. The process itself started after reaching the agreement with the Taliban during Trump’s presidency in Doha. During the process, the Taliban accelerated the military campaign and seized control of the majority of the Afghan territories, including the capital city Kabul. Until...

The withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan was accompanied by the spread of several false and manipulative claims in the Georgian media. Namely: The U.S. has left the equipment worth 85 billion USD to the Taliban. The Afghan economy has not improved since 2001. The production of opium has increased 100 times since the...

On September 5th, 2021, the Facebook user “Nino Nino” published a video where Kamala Harris, the vice president of the U.S., gets inoculated by a coronavirus vaccine. The frame where the medical worker allegedly straightens the needle by the end of the procedure is repeated several times. The video description asserts that Harris did not take the...

On September 1st, 2021, Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, discussed the prominent issues of contemporary international politics at the new academic year opening ceremony at MGIMO. During one of his comments, Lavrov touched upon Georgian-Russian relations and proclaimed that if Georgians stop playing the “Russian Card” in favour of its Western...

  On August 31st, Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia, announced that the Georgian government decided not to take the second instalment of the macro-financial assistance of the EU, which amounts to 75 million EUR. Garibashvili named the desire to decrease foreign debt as the primary reason behind this decision. On the same day,...

Over the course of the last few months, a number of social media accounts (see: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) have been trying to shape the public discourse around mass vaccination by connecting them with the Gospel of John. These accounts have been asserting that coronavirus vaccines are connected with the mark of the beast...

On September 5th, the Facebook page “Supporters of the Alliance of Patriots” published a post about David Kramer – the researcher at Florida International University and the former official of the US Department of State. The post claims that Kramer, who encouraged Georgia to join NATO in exchange for losing the occupied territories, demanded the...

On September 4th, the Facebook user Nodar Mzhavia published a screenshot showcasing Giorgi Gakharia alongside nine election promises. The post claims that the former prime minister and the current leader of the “For Georgia” party has devised a specific plan to combat the existing political and economic crisis. The alleged plan entails several aspects such...

According to the information published by Tvalsazrisi.ge, Giorgi Kardava, the executive chair of the political movement “Alternative for Georgia” and the host and co-founder of a media outlet “Alt-Info” left for Moscow for a business trip. As Tvalsazrisi.ge notes, Kardava visited Russia’s capital city to organize a meeting between the members of “Alternative for Georgia” and...

On August 28th, the Facebook page of the political party “Free Georgia” aired a live broadcast of a Zoom meeting, in which the party leader Kakha Kukava talks to Davit Dolidze. According to the video description,  Georgian citizens are forced to be vaccinated at the Kutaisi airport. The respondent claims that his children had to...

On August 31st and September 1st, Facebook accounts “Political Satire” and “Savior of Georgia” have published the pictures and a quote of the members of the newly-created political platform “Mesame Dzala” [Third Force]. According to the circulated screenshot, the members of the “Mesame Dzala” perceive the protection of sexual minorities as the main challenge for...

On August 31st, 2021, Facebook user Irakli Lomidze published a video that claims that children are taken away from their parents in Australia to get the coronavirus vaccine. The beginning of the video includes scenes where a kid is being separated from an adult man by the police and medical staff. According to the author...