On March 14, 2023, during the primetime program of the pro-Kremlin Alt-Info TV, speaking about the actions against the draft law “On the transparency of foreign influence”, Giorgi Kardava, the chairman of the pro-Kremlin “Conservative Movement” party, noted that the participants of these protests are not people who love and cherish Georgian traditions and identity,...

In the first reading at the parliamentary session on March 7th, 76 Georgian MPs passed the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” initiated by the “People’s Power” fraction of the “Georgian Dream” party. According to the draft law, which was withdrawn by the parliament on March 10th as a result of protests, all non-commercial...

On March 8, the primetime program of the Georgian pro-Krmelin “Sezoni TV, aired a shot from the protest held on March 8th in Tbilisi, showing two people. The footage shows a white cross symbol on their arms, and a bottle can also be observed lying on the pavement. The guest of the program, Paata Abuladze,...

On March 4-5th, 2023, Russian propaganda media outlets Pravda.ru, Российская газета and kherson-news.ru, as well as Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4) and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4) Facebook accounts published posts, according to which Public display of Ukrainian flags in Israel is prohibited by law, otherwise, the fine is 10,000 Israeli shekels. Some of the...

On February 19th, 2023, information about the marriage of the son of Russian propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, was disseminated on social media. Facebook pages (1, 2, 3, 4) and Facebook accounts (1, 2) wrote that Solovyov’s son got married. A photo of the wedding of two men is attached to the posts. Some users (1,2,3,4) claimed...

On February 7th, 2023, Giorgi Kardava, one of the hosts of the “Alt-Analytics” program on the pro-Kremlin Alt-Info, spoke about the Minsk Agreement: Giorgi Kardava, Alt-Info: “What was the Minsk agreement all about? The Minsk agreement meant that Russia would return these territories [Luhansk and Donetsk] to Ukraine, and Ukraine would simply not join NATO....

In mid-January, a number of Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and Russian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Facebook accounts shared a video purportedly showing the United Kingdom’s first “pig spa.” According to the posts’ captions and the video, people are paying £1,200 to experience life as a pig. The video shared by the Facebook...

On January 17th, 2023, an anonymous Facebook account published a video showing the 43rd President of the United States of the US, George W. Bush, dancing to a Russian song. The video was shot in the Russian city of Sochi and features Russian President Vladimir Putin. The video is accompanied by the inscription “Putin and...

On January 12th, 2023, Giorgi Kardava, one of the hosts of the “Alt-Analytics” program of the pro-Kremlin “Alt-Info” TV and the chairman of the “Conservative Movement” party, claimed that influencer Andrew Tate was “arrested due to excessive masculinity” in the West. Kardava also noted that before being arrested, Tate was first blocked on social networks...

The communications department of the ruling “Georgian Dream” party created the Facebook page “In Reality” on June 9, 2021. The page claims that the platform aims to expose the spread of false information against the “Georgian Dream,” and features the slogan “Trust facts, not perceptions”. As of January 15, the page is managed by 5...

Originally from 2021, a video claiming to show banned archival footage related to technology that has been hidden from society has gone viral again on Georgian social media. The author of the post claims the video shows that modern technology, such as laptops and mobile phones, existed in the past, but that this fact has...

On 29 December 22, a Georgian Facebook user posted a video of Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, speaking at the B20 Summit on 14 November 2022. According to the author of the post, Schwab stated that “We are intentionally causing chaos at the international level to achieve the...