As the parliamentary election date gets closer, waves of disinformation and discrediting content intensifies both from Russian and domestic sources. It is likely that the coronavirus pandemic has caused early activation of the infrastructure created ...
The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has discovered a suspicious scheme of coordinated dissemination of materials of a Russian media outlet Sputnik across Georgian Facebook space. Based on observation of open sources on ...
In Georgia and the Western countries, coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is accompanied by a powerful campaign of information manipulation in social media, for disinformation and discrediting purposes. As the international crisis unfolds, intensified Ru ...
On December 20, social networking site Facebook removed 418 accounts from its platform for coordinated inauthentic behavior, including 344 pages, 13 groups, 39 profiles and 22 Instagram accounts. Facebook’s investigation found that people ...
ISFED presented social media monitoring report. On November 19, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy presented another report of social media monitoring in the context of the 2018 presidential election. The present rep ...
The present social media monitoring report summarizes quantitative and qualitative findings based on the study of Facebook pages that disseminate value-based divisive narratives, sheds light to possible coordination between these pages, and provid ...
Almost a year ahead of the 2020 parliamentary elections, disinformation campaign is getting traction on Facebook and one of its primary targets are civil society organizations and activists. These organized campaigns illustrate that anonymous actors ...
On September 2, the Georgian Dream’s fourth prime minister, Mamuka Bakhtadze resigned by releasing a statement on Facebook. Bakhtadze’s farewell on Facebook was somewhat symbolic considering that his entire tenure was accompanied by spons ...