Affiliated media: Tabula, News agency

Incident date: June 13, 2024

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Georgian Public Broadcaster

Location: Georgia, Tbilisi

Additional information:

Georgian Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, spread false information about the Tabula media outlet accusing it of funding a political party with the money coming from European donors. He referred to the funding from the Finnish embassy that a few days later issued a statement stating what the project entailed and debunked the false information about funding a party.