Affiliated media: Project 64, Online media outlet
Incident date: October 4, 2025
Attack type:
- Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Mediachecker's Facebook account
Location: Georgia, Tbilisi
Additional information:
Project 64, as well as two other media outlets lost control of their drones when they were covering a large-scale anti-government protest in Tbilisi held on the election day. As the media outlets reported, allegedly drone control was taken over by law enforcement forces. George Gogua who was operating drone said that when he lost control, the flying app showed that the drone was at the airport. A lot of citizens reported that their Google history showed that they were at the airport when the protest was taking place and when they were attending protest which might have been the result of messed frequencies, they said.