Facebook users Nino Bregadze and Gocha Chumashvili shared identical texts on the social networking website on February 20-21, 2021. According to their post, there is a food additive called HEK-293 that consists of kidney cells of an aborted embryo and large food-producing companies such as Nestle, Kraft, and PepsiCo use it in their products. The...

On February 17, based on a decision of Tbilisi City Court, the bail for a leader of the United National Movement (UNM), Nika Melia, was replaced with imprisonment. Melia was arrested on February 23 in the office of the opposition. The arrest of one of the leaders of the opposition was followed by protest and...

Before police detained Nika Melia, leader of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party, during a special operation at the party headquarters, international partners called on the Georgian government to de-escalate tensions and avoid deepening polarization caused by the political impasse following the 2020 parliamentary elections. They also called on the opposition to end their...

On February 12, 2021, Facebook user Lado Chkhetiani published the February 11 recording of the program “ღამის სტუდია” (Night Studio) aired on “Obiektivi” TV. In the recording, the host Nino Ratishvili and her guests (Tina Topuria, Irina Gelashvili, Maiko Smith) discussed the vaccines. The host and her guests develop a narrative that it is impossible...

On September 16, at 10:20, pro-Georgian Dream Facebook page “ლიდერი 41” (Leader 41) published a photo, showing Gigi Tsereteli of the opposition European Georgia party along with Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov and other persons. The page notes that the meeting was held in the OSCE format on April 22, 2019 and that the Gavrilov case...

  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 20, Facebook profile Tamaz Chikhladze published a photo of Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria with the following comment: “Nino Lomjaria, “public defender”: Georgian penitentiary system is governed by informal “thief-in-law” Bidzina Ivanishvili”. As of 14:30, January 21, the post has 61 reactions,80 comments, and 27 shares. The aforesaid account shared the post...

  On January 11, a Facebook user Nino Bregadze published a post about vaccines. It cited a Greek computer specialist Giannis Bitzarakis, which claims that Bill Gates stated that the COVID-19 vaccine includes nanorobots and the second shot is needed to activate them via electronic energy. He says that vaccination equals suicide and adds that...

On January 10, Facebook profile “სულიერი სამყარო” (Spiritual World) published a post, according to which, doctors in Vienna confirmed that wearing masks caused fungal infection and as a result, 10 children are in critical condition. The author of the post calls for readers to take masks away from Children. The photo attached to the post...

Tamar Kiknadze, a Georgian political analyst, said during Obieqtivi TV program “Gamis Studia” (Night Studio) on December 24 that EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell allegedly claimed that a human being should have no religious, ethnic or gender identity. Kiknadze called it the key postulate of liberalism, linking it to...

Over the past years, information warfare has been gaining recognition as a major global threat, particularly due to its weaponization by state actors. It is widely believed that tools such as disinformation and propaganda particularly flourish in polarized and fractured societies. This makes countries and regions with longtime conflicts especially susceptible to their malign influence....