On September 2, a Georgian-language Facebook account, which manages the pro-Georgian Dream page “Leader 41,” shared a cover of Ekonomist magazine. The cover features a caricature of Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with a Turkish caption that reads “Export Route.” The former president is shown riding a pink bicycle while wearing a pink tie and...

On October 18-19, Georgian- (1,2) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4) disseminated the claim that a black flag was raised on the grave of Imam Reza in the Khorasan province of Iran, which according to tradition is a declaration of war and revenge. The claim that the black flag erected at the shrine of Imam Reza...

On September 1, 2023, the ruling Georgian Dream party initiated the impeachment proceedings against President Salome Zourabichvili. Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the party, stated that the President had grossly violated the Georgian Constitution and had planned a series of foreign visits without the government’s consent. The issue of Salome Zourabichvili’s impeachment triggered discussions and...

On March 23-24, 2023, the Facebook page “Political Graveyard N5” and several Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4) published a screenshot of the alleged Facebook post of journalist Vakho Sanaia, which was related to the visit of famous Georgian football player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia. According to the post, Sanaia claims that despite going to...

On May 3rd, the Facebook account “William William” posted a video accompanied by the caption “Who Really Rules Georgia?! Excerpt from Davit Tordia’s video.” The video itself concerns George Soros. According to Tordia, George Soros is the creator of the classic “devilish carousel” in Georgia, the main “Satanist and the number one Jehovah’s Witness in...

Amid the Ukrainian crisis, information about the participation of elderly people in the ongoing civil exercises in Ukraine has been somewhat viral on social media. Several media outlets, including the “Mtavari Arkhi”, “Formula,” and “Mega TV”, wrote about 79-year-old Valentina Konstantinovska. A post about Ukrainian women being at the front was also posted on the...

A Facebook account სუვერენული სახელმწიფო (Sovereign state) shared a video of Davit Tordia’s YouTube program Sword of Truth on May 7, 2021. In the video, Tordia claims that the coronavirus pandemic is actually a conspiracy to subjugate people, whereas the reports on the death rate of the coronavirus are fake and exaggerated. He also claimed...

On April 28, fake Facebook account Lasha Modebadze published a post stating that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, former politicians of the Soviet republics joined secret Masonic orders. As alleged evidence, the post has various photos attached depicting well-known politicians including Eduard Shevardnadze, Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, Mikheil Saakashvili, George Bush, etc. Photos...

On March 30, a Facebook user „დავით თორდია. უკვე დროა“ (Davit Tordia. It Is Time) published a YouTube video with a description claiming that the viewers would see a strong occultist-satanic building and will find out something about vaccines. In the beginning of the video, the author speaks about a secret building next to Tbilisi...

On March 23, Facebook page დავით თორდია. უკვე დროა (Davit Tordia. Time has Come) shared a YouTube link to Facebook and called on users to view it. In the video, Tordia claims that numbers of COVID-19 infected people have been inflated in Italy, referring to a video address by Italian politician “Vitorias Garbi” (apparently Vittorio...

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...