In 2020, Facebook, now known as Meta, took action against the Kremlin propagandist agency "News-Front" for violating platform rules related to coordinated inauthentic behavior. Despite the removal from the platform, accounts affiliated with th ...
While Georgia awaits the candidate country status in the European Union and contends with the ongoing war in Ukraine, there has been a notable surge in the dissemination of anti-Western narratives within Georgia's information space. The International ...
In June 2022, following the submission of their membership applications to the European Union, Ukraine and Moldova were granted the status of candidate countries. Additionally, the European Council acknowledged Georgia's European perspective and expr ...
Meta's political ads library (Ad Library) includes sponsored posts about elections and social and political issues and has been operating in Georgia since August 2020. Its purpose is to ensure the transparency of information about advertisers of poli ...
The queer community in Georgia has always been the target of discrimination, violence, and suppression by the alt-right, pro-Russian groups. Alt Info and other pro-Russian groups instrumentalize the sexual minorities to create the image of the enemy ...
The Georgian Government Administration actively started establishing strategic communication departments (StratComs) in 2018. The Ministry of Defense is an exception in this case, as it created a similar structural unit of its own back in 2015. Strat ...
On May 17, 2023, a page called "Progressive Conservatism," which uses anti-liberal, including homophobic, messages to incite anti-Western sentiments, was created on Facebook. This page periodically publishes short videos in which people posing as blo ...
I. Main Findings The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy has exposed pro-Russian network operating on social media platforms in three countries of the South Caucasus region – Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaij ...