On March 30, 2021, Facebook user Nina Marji shared a video depicting a person cutting the mask and showing the worms inside of it. The video went viral in Georgia as well as other countries. It was shared in various Facebook groups, including „კორონა მაფია“ (Corona Mafia), where false information about COVID-19 is often...

On April 8, Facebook users Gocha Chumashvili and Nina Marji published the posts with identical content claiming that pharmaceutical company “Pfizer” plans to integrate invisible liquid Microsoft chips into the COVID-19 vaccines. According to the reported information, it is with the “Microsoft Pluton” chip that the body will recognize and even eradicate symptoms associated with...

On April 9, Facebook page “მამული ენა სარწმუნოება” (Homeland, Language, Religion) published a post, saying that brigade commanders are calling on soldiers to get vaccinated, otherwise threatening with lockup. The author of the post claims that his closest friend provided him with this information from the army.   Facebook user ნინო პ. published the post...

Update: After the publication Giorgi Balkhamishvili contacted the “Myth Detector”. According to him, the Facebook page was created in his name, did not actually belong to him and served to discredit him.   On March 12, Georgia’s Prime-minister Irakli Gharibashvili’s photo was published by using the name of Shalva Kuchashvili, founder of the movement “Tsin’svla”....

On April 7, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze published the post stating that the president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili introduced amendments to the healthcare law in April 2019, and the pandemic spectacle started at the end of 2019. Attached to the post is the screenshot of the April 2, 2019 amendments to the Law on Public...

  Esma Ananidze Esma Ananidze – obtained a master’s degree in Business Administration from St Tbel Abuseridze University. She currently works as an administrative manager at the branch of LEPL College “New Wave” in Khulo municipality. She is also a vocational education teacher. PUBLISHED MATERIAL:   Davit Beradze     Davit Beradze – is a...

On April 3, Facebook user Zurab Kumsiashvili published a post, claiming that there is an important uranium-238 deposit in Rioni Gorge and that bridges and roads are being built to get to that deposit. Kumsiashvili also noted that thorium produced through uranium fission can be used as fuel for cars that is the key reason...

On April 10, 2021, Facebook user Giorgi Jakhashvili published a post, claiming that 100 years ago, Russia gave away the territory belonging to Georgia to Turkey in exchange for Crimea for a term of 100 years, but Turkey has not returned this territory so far. Giorgi Jakhashvili: “100 years ago, Soviet Russia gave away the...

On April 7, 2021, Facebook user Mamuka Karchkhadze published a post about 5G wireless networks, claiming that the Swedish government barred Chinese suppliers of 5G networks, Huawei and ZTE, from installing 5G towers in the country, citing high levels of radiation and strong outcry from citizens. As of April 8, Mamuka Karchkhadze’s post has 181...

On April 8, Facebook user Tinatin Chikadze published a post, in which she expresses concern over mandatory nature of vaccination and accuses Tamar Gabunia, deputy health minister, of using violence. The author quotes Tamar Gabunia allegedly saying in the interview with Rustavi 2 TV on April 6 that if citizens do not get vaccinated voluntarily,...

  On April 1, 2021, Ramaz Nozadze, who ran in the 2017 municipal elections as an independent candidate from Khashuri constituency, uploaded a video on his Facebook page, noting in its caption that this is a game named “What will happen if the war begins between Turkey and Georgia.” Ramaz Nozadze claims that the video...

On March 30, 2021, Facebook user Kakhaber Chichinadze uploaded a video, showing how several people are putting the bodies of people wrapped in black bags in a truck with one of the “corpses” smoking a cigarette. According to Chichinadze’s post, the video is linked to “liberals’ COVID propaganda.” Later on April 2, Facebook account Lena...