“Today is my birthday; I just turned 28; I am Mariam and thank you all who will congratulate me. God bless you” – “Mariam’s” photo with this caption emerged in Facebook group uMedia on March 9 and it accumulated 6,300 likes and over 1,000 congratulatory comments in a few days. However, it is not the...

  On March 17, after midnight, the power supply was cut off in most parts of Georgia. This became the basis of conspiracy theories and was considered as Turkey’s response to a demonstration against Namokhvani HPP. A military blogger, David Nemsadze, portrayed the power outage on March 17 as an energy sabotage, highlighting that a...

The Strategic Defense Review (SDR) document for 2017-2020 released by the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in April.2017 officially recognizes Russia’s soft power as the key challenge to the country’s security. The Russkiy Mir Foundation established on June 21, 2007 by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin plays an important role in using the elements...

On March 13, former Georgian lawmaker, Demur Giorkhelidze published a post on his Facebook page, saying that the fatality rate related to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is 58% and 41%, respectively. Citing the February 12 data of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), Giorkhelidze claimed that 929 out of 15,923 side effects from vaccination resulted...

  On March 12, Father Pilipe Abashidze published a post on his Facebook account discussing vaccine ingredients without specifying the manufacturing company. The post claims that the vaccine contains MRC-5, pulmonary cells from the aborted embryo. Moreover, according to Pilipe Abashidze, it also contains cattle fetus and virus found in monkeys that causes cancer. According...

On March 10, Georgian news agency, taonews.ge published an article headlined “Artvin Mayor – Many thanks to our ancestors for liberating Artvin from Georgian invaders (video).” The article covers a solemn event held on March 7 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Artvin’s liberation. The article quotes Artvin Mayor Demirhan Elçin as allegedly saying at...

March 6, TV Pirveli aired an audio conversation allegedly between Bera Ivanishvili, Irakli Garibashvili and Anzor Chubinidze whose authenticity was initially questioned by the Georgian Dream lawmakers and dubbed as “a fabrication.” However, in the interview with Imedi TV on March 9, Bera Ivanishvili, son of the ruling party founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili, did not deny...

  On March 8, 2021, a website Sportvideos.ge published an article titled “Lomjaria: Georgian gays and transgenders should be allowed to marry and adopt because…”. The article cites the Public Defender’s report, which, according to the publication, criticizes the notion of marriage in the constitution, as a union between a woman and a man and...

On March 12, 2021, Goal.ge published news, titled “Georgian NGOs Demanded to Disqualify Basilashvili from Tournament”. The article mentions the successes of the Georgian tennis player, Nikoloz Basilashvili at the tournament in Doha and the statements made by his lawyer, Irma Chkadua. The article comes with photos of Nino Lomjaria, the Public Defender, which, together...

Update: After “Myth Detector” published an article about the mentioned topic, itar.ge corrected the initial information and newposts.ge deleted it. On March 11-12, webpages newposts.ge, itar.ge and www.ge disseminated information that Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has registered on the social network Tiktok and even uploaded several videos. As of 16:00, March 12, newsposts article has...

On March 9, Facebook user Mano Beridze published a post, according to which “70% of French healthcare workers do not trust and reject vaccination.” The author of the post called on Georgian doctors to follow the example of their French colleagues. Mano Beridze refers to Italian online edition Corriere as the source of information. Mano...

On March 8, 2021, Sputnik Georgia published an article by Arno Khidirbegishvili, editor of pro-Russian Sakinformi news agency, with the following headline – “Fake patriotism or Russophobia – why Georgia disregards Sputnik V.” The author of the article highlights the advantages of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, while slamming the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. Khidirbegishvili also...