According to the U.S. Senate report, Russia used social media during the 2016 electoral campaign to influence voters and conduct an information warfare campaign designed to spread disinformation and societal division in the United States. The document reads that Russia mostly targeted the issues such as race, immigration, and Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

On May 21, a Facebook account სამყარო სამყარო (World World) published a video, with a description saying “This is how NASA tries to block sun rays entering the Earth”. As of May 25, the post had 182 shares. On May 22, another Facebook user Zaza Chrikishvili published the same video together with two other videos....

An infodemic, as defined by the World Health Organization, is an overabundance of information, both online and offline. It includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals. Mis- and disinformation can be harmful to people’s physical and mental health; increase stigmatization; threaten...

A protest rally held in Tbilisi on May 23 against the construction of the Namakhvani Hydropower Plant in western Georgia’s Rioni Gorge has prompted fake pages to spread discrediting posts. Myth Detector has identified four active Facebook pages with three of them trying to discredit and make fun of the organizers of protests on May...

On May 15, Obieqtivi TV’s program ნამდვილი ამბები (Real News) focused on the epidemiological situation and the process of vaccination in the country with its journalist asking Georgian homeopath Tina Topuria for comments. Topuria, who was referred to as an epidemiologist by Obieqtivi TV, said that vaccination is dangerous for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. Topuria claims...

On May 13, Georgian homeopath Tina Topuria published a post, according to which the U.S. federal court demanded to prohibit Facebook and YouTube from blocking vaccination-related information. The post is accompanied by the article published by Childrenshealthdefense.org with an identical headline. On May 15, Facebook account “სუვერენული სახელმწიფო” (Sovereign State) also published an identical post....

On May 18, 2021 clickbait webpage sport365.ge published an article with the following headline: NASA Astronomers Discovered God’s Heaven – See Where Humans Go after Death”. According to the article, in 1994 Hubble Telescope identified gigantic artificial object in space, and specialists discovered it to be a colossal city in the center of the galaxy...

Massive violence erupted between locals in the southern town of Dmanisi of Kvemo Kartli region on May 17 following a shop incident that took place a day earlier. The Interior Ministry, riot police and government officials had to intervene to defuse the tensions. The confrontation between Georgian citizens – local ethnic Georgian and Azerbaijani population –...

On May 11, 2021, Facebook user Ninu Nemsveridze Art uploaded a Russian-language video, which claims that global pandemic was planned back in the 20th century and its goal was to reduce the population. To prove its claims, the video provides the quote allegedly taken from the book “Verbatim” by Jacques Attali, who, according to the...

On May 14, Facebook page სოფელ უდეს მონასტრები (Monasteries of the Village Ude) shared monastrisnobati.ge article about Catholics celebrating Ascension Day on May 13 in village Buzmareti. The article titled “Annual Invasion of Parish from the Latin Church of Rome in the Orthodox Churches of Buzmareti” notes that for two years, law enforcement officers haven’t...

On May 12, Facebook user Bacho Grigolia published a post about Elon Musk. According to the author, Musk is an alien lizard who is trying to go back to his own planet Mars. The post has attached the photo and a quote of Elon Musk about press and media control. The photo lists various international...

On May 14, Facebook user “ბოლო ჟამის ქრისტიანები“ (Christians of Apocalypse) published a post, which, according to the post, contains a plan for Jew’s complete subjugation and annihilation of non-Jewish nations. Post has a photo of “Temple Coins” attached, which, according to the author, was published by kabbalist jews i.e., synagogue of Satan and is...