The report portrays an information ecosystem in which Georgia’s handful of independent newsrooms are being targeted from every side. The “foreign agents” and “anti‑LGBT” laws label donor‑backed or minority‑focused outlets as enemies of the state. Covering the protests has become dangerous work—police beatings and other types of attacks injured or violated the rights of more than 200 reporters in 2024, yet no one has been held to account.
Funding is wielded as another weapon: pro‑government stations enjoy exclusive ad deals and subsidies, while critical channels see revenues gutted by steep fees. Meanwhile, state TV and fake social‑media networks flood the information ecosystem with anti‑Western spin, painting independent outlets as “foreign puppets” who “work “against the interests” of the Georgian society. Together, these tactics cloud the public’s grasp of reality and dim the prospects for Georgia’s democracy.
Overall, these measures make it harder for people to tell fact from fiction, and may hinder Georgia’s democratic progress.
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