Between December 12 and 16, Georgian (1;2) and Russian-language (1;2;3;4;5;6) Facebook users and pages circulated a photo allegedly showing the Vice-President of the European Commission and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas. The authors claim that the black-and-white photo was taken in the 1980s and shows Kallas standing against...

On June 22, a Facebook user known for frequently spreading false information, Merab Ratishvili, posted a video claiming to show Iran’s nuclear facilities being bombed by the United States. The video consists of two different clips. The circulated footage does not show the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. The first clip is from 2020...

On June 22-23, a video was circulated on Russian-language (1, 2, 3)  and Georgian-language Facebook accounts, which, according to the description, shows Israeli refugees moving toward Egypt. The authors of the posts claim that the video was filmed near Eilat, on the Israel-Egypt border, and that the migration was triggered by Iranian missile strikes and...

On December 7, 2023, a recording of an alleged conversation between the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his wife, Olena Zeleska, was disseminated on social networks and Russian news agencies (1, 2, 3, 4). In the disseminated recording, Zelenskyy criticizes the leaders of the US, Germany, and Poland and accuses Biden, whom he calls...

On December 2, 2023, writer Merab Ratishvili shared a photo on Facebook with the description: “Disney made a cartoon about the leader of the Clinton clan, who was exposed in pedophilia. Such immoral entities ruled the US and “taught democracy” to the rest of the world.” The published photo shows an animated poster in which...

On October 13, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account posted a video, which, by the claim of the author, depicts researchers unsealing an Inca pyramid and discovering proof of extraterrestrial life. The video shows a construction crew working on what looks like the entrance of a temple, after which the video cuts away to individuals going...

On October 14, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a video in which we see how a large group of people move with white bags hanging on their backs. The video is accompanied by a description that Egyptians have crossed the border with Gaza on foot to deliver water and food to the people of the...

On September 27, Bondo Mdzinarashvili, a member of the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster, published a statement attributed to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. According to the post, Austin has asked the Russian military not to hunt for Abrams tanks to avoid a repetition of the situation with the German Leopard tanks:...

On June 29-30, 2023, Georgian- (1,2) and Russian-language (1,2) Facebook accounts and pages (1,2) disseminated the information that, according to Politico, the lives of 20 million Ukrainians will be needed to return the territory of Ukraine. Some of the posts also feature a screenshot of a Politico article, on which we see the title: “20,000,000...

On May 14, 2023, writer Merab Ratishvili published five photos showing a large beam coming from the sky in the area of fires, a flying machine with a large lens, and the cover of one of the issues of Time magazine, featuring the Earth is on fire. According to the description, the photos depict fires...

Since April 30, 2023, Georgian writer Merab Ratishvili and several Georgian– and Russian-language (1,2,3) Facebook accounts, including former Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Telizhenko, have been disseminating the information that, according to Politico, US President Joe Biden is pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to either start the planned spring counteroffensive immediately or agree on the terms of...

Since April 29, 2023, Georgian writer Merab Ratishvili, as well as other Georgian– and Russian-language (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) Facebook accounts, have been disseminating a video of the Vice President of the United States of America, Kamala Harris, in which Harris says the following words: “Today is today and yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow,...

On April 25, 2023, Georgian writer Merab Ratishvili published a video collage, which features a segment of the speech of the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John O. Brennan. In the description of the video, Ratishvili notes that Brennan “discusses the injection of chemical trails, aka stratospheric aerosol, as well as stratospheric...

On April 6-7, 2023, Georgian- (1,2,3,4) and Russian-language (1,2,3) Facebook users started circulating a video showing a church building being set on fire. According to the attached description, the church is located in Ukraine and was burned by Ukrainians. Some of the users claimed that the Orthodox Church depicted in the video was located in...