The present report provides the analysis of the main trends in social media in Georgia, ahead of the 2020 elections. In particular, the report summarizes activity of main pages of main political parties and candidates, local self-government bodie ...
Since the 2018 presidential election period, ISFED has been monitoring behavior of Facebook pages operating against opposition parties as well as the ruling party. As a result of two large-scale operations carried out by Facebook against Georgian pag ...
ISFED identified 34 pages on Facebook that display coordinated inauthentic behavior and are associated with organization Alt-Info that spreads divisive narratives. Alt-Info is a self-proclaimed source of alternative information but in reality it is e ...
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Facebook Nick Clegg, Vice-President - Global Affairs and Communications, Facebook June 29, 2020 We the Georgian civil society representatives, civic activists and media representa ...
Since April 2020, some local self-government bodies have engaged in campaigning in favor of the ruling party, using their official Facebook pages. In addition, individual municipalities are also involved in campaigning in favor of majoritarian member ...
In April 2020, Facebook removed 943 pages, profiles, groups and Instagram accounts engaged in domestic political campaigns in Georgia, for coordinated inauthentic behavior. Among them was a network of false media pages identified by ISFED. The primar ...
On May 1, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) published its report on organized information operations by Kremlist news agency News-Front in the Georgian Facebook space. Facebook removed the global inauthentic network o ...
On April 30, 2020 Facebook removed from its platform Kremlin’s propagandistic information agency News-Front’s pages in Georgian and other languages that they used in various countries. As part of its social media monitoring, the Internati ...