On February 3-4, Facebook pages “ერთი მილიონი ქართველი” (One Million Georgians), “კანსპირატორი” and “Gogaggg” spread the photos depicting the cover of history textbook for grade 9 as well as one of the pages from the same textbook, reading “Source 8: David Gareji is part of Azerbaijan.” The photo published by “ერთი მილიონი ქართველი” is accompanied...

Speaking about the U.S. presidential elections during the Alt-Info TV program “Alt Interview” on January 30, the TV channel’s founder, Konstantine Morgoshia claimed that “dead voters” elected Joe Biden as the new U.S. President.  He said that according to some reports, “century-old” people cast their ballots for Biden in the elections. Konstantine Morgoshia: “If elections...

On February 2, 2021, a clickbait page Gifsat.com spread news about Neuralink, an Elon Musk company, installing a chip in a monkey’s brain, titled: “’We have installed a chip in a monkey, and now it is time for humans…’ – Elon Musk”. However, there is no full version of the quote given in the title....

Information about Latvia recognizing pioneers as victims of the Soviet regime and granting pensions in the amount of 220 Euros circulates on the Georgian social network. Information about Latvia granting former pioneers the assistance was made up by the Russian satirical edition Panorama.pub and is not true. Story about the assistance to former pioneers was...

On 1 February, Alt-Info, an ultranationalist platform which also began television broadcasting on 8 January, interviewed Russian ultranationalist philosopher and founder of the Eurasia Movement Aleksandr Dugin. This was the second time that this platform hosted the ideologist of Eurasianism which represents a modification of aggressive Russian expansionism. Being on the Alt-Info channel, Dugin, among...

On January 25, Facebook user Gocha Bakradze published a post, where the provided information in Georgian and Russian languages alleges that German scientists discovered that coronavirus is a bacteria, not a virus, whereas the cause of death in infected people was actually the onset of thrombosis. According to the author’s claim, the autopsy of people...

On January 28, following the release of Iveri Melashvili, various ultra national actors made statements on the social network and TV channels regarding Iveri Melashvili, detained for Cartographers’ Case, ceding 6 hectares of Georgian land to Turkey. This information is primarily used as a proof of Melashvili’s “treason”. Reports on Georgia ceding 6 hectares of...

On February 1, Facebook page კარდჰუ (Kardhu) posted a photo of Iveri Melashvili, a cartographer and former state expert accused of attempted land ceding to Azerbaijan. The photo is accompanied by a quote attributed to Iveri Melashvili: “Luckily, I do not watch Imedi TV; I would simply get annoyed after seeing a caption ‘Gareji is...

  During the Obieqtivi TV program Gamis Studia (Night Studio) aired on January 25, 2020, Nino Ratishvili, the program host, and Nona Agdgomelashvili, an invited guest, spoke about vaccines. The latter claimed that vaccines cause various complications, including epilepsy, autism and infertility. To back up her words, Agdgomelashvili provided an example of vaccines manufactured by...

On 28 January, speaking in a talk show “Reaction” on TV Pirveli, Iveri Melashvili discussed, among other things, the process of defining a disputed section of the border. Various media outlets and political actors took only a fragment of the talk show and shared it extensively. The mentioned fragment contained few sentences, including the words...

On January 27, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze, presumably a fake profile, published a photo of David Rockefeller together with his words. According to the quote, David Rockefeller stated that “All that we need is a right major crisis and nations will accept the new world order”. Illustration depicting Rockefeller’s words and a photo cites pro-Kremlin...

In a program “Imedis Faktori” aired on TV Imedi on 26 January, a presenter, Magda Anikashvili, discussed a recent NDI survey. According to her, responses to the answer about coronavirus vaccine suggest that supporters of the United National Movement (UNM) have reservations with regard to vaccination whereas supporters of the Georgian Dream are willing to...