The claim
A Facebook group Travel Georgia published a post on October 25, 2020 claiming that the News program on Mtavari Channel aired a fake story about an armed robbery at a bank in Gurjaani. According to Travel Georgia, Mtavari Channel used a photo from a robbery in Oklahoma, U.S. to illustrate the fake news. The page calls on its users to share the post to expose Mtavari Channel in spreading lies. A screenshot is attached to the post where two African American robbers are circled in red and a logo of Mtavari Channel News at 9, as well as a title of the news on the bottom of the screen, but according to the screenshot, the news is called “Armed attack in Dmanisi”, not in Gurjaani. The post by Travel Georgia does not provide a link to the specific TV program or report which contains the given image.
Rating
The information disseminated by Travel Georgia is not true and is a photomanipulation. There is no news about a robbery in Gurjaani on the webpage of Mtavari Channel. The TV reports about the robbery in Dmanisi were aired on News at 9 on October 21-22 and they did not include the image, shown by Travel Georgia. Disseminating photomanipulations aims to discredit oppositional media in the run-up to the election.
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