How Propaganda Turns a Scholarship into Zurabishvili's 'American Dream'

On January 9, 2025, CTVBY aired a story titled “Former Georgian President Fled to the US!”, which garnered over 800,000 views, with the following statement:

Now the former Georgian president has found employment in the United States. The McCain Institute has announced the politician as a 2025 Kissinger Fellow. As a fellow, Zurabishvili will use her extensive diplomatic, leadership, and political experience to push for new elections and advance her country’s democratic path, the report notes. According to unofficial information, the politician has already left Georgia and set off to pursue her American dream.

Our verdict based on the analysis:

Verdict: Incorrect

Reasons:

• The thesis or statement is completely false: information from several sources or the opinions of several experts in a particular field contradict it.
• Cause-and-effect relationships and connections clearly do not exist, as is claimed.
• When quoting, essential parts are omitted, rearranged, changed or incorrectly translated from a foreign language, as a result of which the meaning of what was said is fundamentally changed.
• The event occurred in essential respects differently than stated.

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It is enough to open Salome Zourabichvili’s Instagram account and see a post from January 9, 2025, which shows a meeting with young people:

Let’s conduct an analysis of disinformation narratives and semantic analysis: