In recent years, social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok have become powerful tools for political actors seeking to influence public opinion. To shape attitudes and perceptions, these actors employ a variety of tactics, methods, and ...
This report details the activities of these anonymous pages involved in political campaigning and aims to uncover their campaigns and key messages in the lead-up to the October 26th, 2024 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia. Full Document &nbs ...
On August 13, two minors tragically died in a fire that broke out in an apartment on Bukia Street in Zugdidi. According to reports, the children, who lived with their mother in a rented apartment, were alone at the time of the fire. Neighbors s ...
TikTok has become a pivotal platform for political actors during election years, enabling them to conduct both overt and covert campaigns and reach a broader audience. Unlike more regulated platforms like Facebook, TikTok offers a less restricted env ...
Introduction After Georgia was granted EU membership candidate status and the Georgian Dream party reintroduced the Transparency of Foreign Influence law, government representatives began intensifying the promotion of conspiracy theories in pub ...
Introduction The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) monitors domestic information manipulation on social media and systematically observes external propagandistic interventions. Recent monitoring efforts have revealed that ...
During a press briefing held on April 3, 2024, the executive secretary of the ruling party, Georgian Dream, announced the intention of the parliamentary majority to reintroduce the "Foreign Agents’ Law." Under this law, organizations receiving ...
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 ...