On May 13, Facebook page “პოლიტ ამბები/Polit-News” disseminated information alleging that one of the shareholders of Mtavari Arkhi Giorgi Rurua will be #1 on the United National Movement’s party list. According to the post, he confirmed this information in a phone talk with journalists.
The post by “Polit-News” is disinformation. In a phone talk with “Myth Detector”, Giorgi Rurua denied the alleged plan to run in elections as a candidate on the National Movement party list
“Myth Detector” contacted Giorgi Rurua. He called the disseminated story nonsense and noted that he doesn’t plan to run in elections as a candidate on the National Movement party list.
Facebook page პოლიტ ამბები/ Polit News, a simulation of news media, was created on October 25, 2020, under the name of just “პოლიტ ამბები” (Polit-news). The page changed its name on May 13, 2021, and on that exact day, the page published the aforesaid post about Giorgi Rurua, the only post on the page so far.
Moreover, the only disseminated post using the name of Giorgi Rurua is sponsored on the aforesaid page
Fake support page using the name Rurua, “რურუა გმირია” (Rurua is a Hero), created prior to parliamentary elections in 2020, compared imprisoned Giorgi Rurua to national hero Merab Kostava. It can no longer be found after “Myth Detector” marked the post. Read more:
Pro-government Pages Share Fake Account Using Rurua’s Name in a Coordinated Manner
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