Disinformation and ‘fake news’ pose huge challenges for politics and governance in the 21st century, especially for Georgia which is in a difficult geopolitical situation as a former Soviet state.
There is now an urgency to build resilience against disinformation operations across the whole of Moscow’s declared ‘sphere of influence’. Georgia, along with other Eastern Partnership states, has been targeted by disinformation to turn public opinion against the European Union (EU), US, and NATO, as well as the country’s strong movement towards closer European integration.
But progress could be made on improving coordination and enhancing technical capacity, and public commitments by media outlets and platforms to shared standards for fighting disinformation would also help build trust and social cohesion.