March 3, 2021, Facebook page Politicano published an article headlined “Forgotten history: the British occupation of Batumi in 1918.” According to the article, Great Britain occupied Batumi based on November 13, 1918 decision and Adjara suffered huge losses caused by British troops. The author of the article accuses the British of taking jewelries and oil...

On March 8, 2021, Facebook user Vasil Papiashvili published a post to a public group “ჰერეთის სახლი | Heretis saxli” with a caption: “A sensational discovery in Hereti!! It is happening right now! Queen Tamar’s remains are not yet considered to be discovered, but now we are dealing with a huge discovery!” According to the...

On February 25, Georgian online media outlet Versia published an article headlined “Georgians moving to Germany for work will be paid wages and withheld income taxes in Georgia.” Speaking in the interview with the media outlet, Spain-based Levan Simonishvili, head of Georgian Emigrants Association, claimed that food and accommodation expenses of Georgian seasonal workers will...

  On March 9, the screenshot of the post by “Mtavari Arkhi” went viral on the social network depicting the photos of Bera Ivanishvili and famous American rapper 2Pac with the following text: “Bera’s trace in the murder of the famous American rapper, what do the witnesses say?”. The screenshot also shows the caption of...

On March 2, web-page geovips.com published the news with the following headline: “Vaccination Will Be Compulsory. Whoever Refuses Will be Fined 3000 Gel”. In the article itself, it’s written that after other fines, the government fining people who refuse the vaccine will be inevitable. The article doesn’t indicate the source of the information. The report...

On July 30, Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, head of the Union of Human Rights Defenders, posted a photo on his Facebook page, claiming that it depicts the Prime Minister of Luxembourg and his spouse. As of March 9, 2021, the photo has 698 reactions and over 3,000 shares. The photo spread on social media depicts Austrian singer,...

On March 5, 2021, the leader of the political party “Georgian Idea”, Levan Chachua published a post on Facebook disseminating the following quote in the name of the billionaire philanthropist George Soros:      “War is no longer a mean for conquering separate country. It’s enough to find or establish a group in the country...

The Kremlin propaganda media outlet, Sputnik Georgia, published a video about the current events in Armenia. It is said that Prime Minister Pashinyan’s statement about the Russian “Iskanders” divided the society into two camps, raising the question of whether the “Iskanders” were used in Nagorno-Karabakh. As a response to this question, a video from Sputnik...

On September 8, 2016, an article by Iza Tamazashvili was published on Georgia and World website, in which she states: “Where was the West during the Great Patriotic War, when the United States and England were funding Hitler, whereas the Western countries were suffering under the domination of Fascist Germany? Was not it Stalin, who saved...

Georgian media and social networks periodically disseminate information about the plan of Allen Dulles, an American diplomat and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Some media outlets propagate an idea that the plan was developed for the United States to sow chaos, corrupt national values and promote immorality following the World War II. In reality, the plan...

On March 1, Facebook user Lu Ka published a photo, depicting one of the pages of a history textbook with the following words underlined: “Georgian alphabet was invented by a famous Armenian public figure, Mesrop Mashtots.” The photo is accompanied by the author’s comment: “SOS!!! SOS!!! SOS!!! Who includes in textbooks such absurd and false...

On February 26, 2021, the United Opposition held a protest rally demanding snap parliamentary elections and the release of Nika Melia. Participants of “March for Freedom” initially gathered at Tbilisi Concert Hall and then marched towards the parliament building. Pro-government, anti-opposition Facebook pages and anti-liberal groups attempted to question the legitimacy of the protest by...