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 ...
Since Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Georgia’s application for EU membership and the Commission’s decision regarding the candidate status, anti-Western messages have particularly strengthened in Georgia. Along with pro-Russian an ...
Since 2018, ISFED has been monitoring political activities on social networks and studying information campaigns on social media platforms. Over the years, the strategies of active actors are changing, adapting to certain limitations, new circumstanc ...
On 29th of August, certain figures acting in favor of the ruling party, who present themselves to public as expert-analysts, posted in an organized manner about the so-called "partner states’/US agents". Considering country’s existing con ...
Parallel to the war waged by Russia in Ukraine, anti-Western and, in some cases, openly pro-Russian messages have intensified in Georgia. According to the popular narrative, the West is pushing Georgia into war against Russia. Similar rhetoric and in ...