Year: 2025
Authors: Lia Chkhetiani, Data Collection Manager; Tinatin Bandzeladze, Researcher
The report examines the factors that shape citizens’ susceptibility to disinformation in Georgia, focusing on media literacy, political polarization, party identification, and conspiratorial thinking. Its purpose is to understand how psychological, political, and socio-demographic characteristics influence resilience or vulnerability to misleading narratives in the Georgian information environment.
The study is based on large-scale telephone and face-to-face surveys conducted in 2025 among Georgian-speaking and ethnic minority populations, using probabilistic and stratified sampling methods. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression models, with vulnerability measured through indicators such as suspicion of false information, fact-checking behavior, political awareness, and belief in pro- and anti-Western narratives.
The report was prepared within the project “Countering Anti-Democratic Propaganda Through Engagement,” implemented by CRRC-Georgia with the support of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
