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Alt-Info

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Alt-Info was a private TV company and online information portal in the country of Georgia.[1] It was founded in 2019 as a right-wing conservative media platform to "counter aggressive liberal censorship". Alt-Info was granted an authorization by Georgian National Communications Commission in November 2020.[2] It launched TV broadcasting in January 2021.[3]

Creation and goals

Alt-Info Ltd. was founded by Shota Martinenko and Tsiala Morgoshia in January 2019, who each own half of the company's shares.[4] The United States Department of the Treasury (US Treasury) considered Konstantine Morgoshia to also be a co-founder of Alt-Info.[5]

The platform described as its main goal to "overcome aggressive censorship imposed by the ideological mainstream and supply audience with as complete and objective information as possible".[6]

Actions

Supporters of Alt-Info and Conservative Movement demonstrating against Tbilisi Pride in July 2023.

Members of Alt-Info participated in organization of several demonstrations and protests, including the protests against Tbilisi Pride in 2021.[7] One of the sponsors of Alt-Info is Konstantine Morgoshia, a businessman who was founding member of Georgian March and Alliance of Patriots. In November 2021, members of Alt-Info established a political party called Conservative Movement. The party was officially registered by the National Agency of Public Registry on 7 December.[8] Members of Alt-Info were also involved in founding of the non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity Alternative for Georgia in 2019.[4]

Actions against Alt-Info

On 5 November 2020, Facebook stated that it removed network connected to Alt-Info for "coordinated inauthentic behavior".[9] Its official website was attacked and shut down by hackers on 1 March 2022.[10]

In September 2024, the US Treasury activated sanctions against Konstantine Morgoshia, alleging that in July 2021 and in 2023, he had "advocated for violent attacks against marginalized persons peacefully exercising their fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly" and that he had "led hundreds of followers to break into non-governmental organization offices and attack journalists and police officers at the scene". The US Treasury also sanctioned Zurab Makharadze, associated with Alt-Info, describing him as "one of the most vocal supporters of violence against peaceful demonstrators and marginalized Georgians" and stating that he had "directly encouraged violence against minority groups and journalists online prior [to] violent attacks."[5]

Closure

In October 2024, Alt-Info, affiliated with the Conservative Movement and running on the Alliance of Patriots ballot, announced it would stop publishing following its disappointing performance in the 2024 parliamentary elections.[11]

References

  1. ^ "მაუწყებლობის ავტორიზაციები". Communications Commission. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. ^ "მაუწყებლობის ავტორიზაციები". Communications Commission. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  3. ^ Kincha, Shota (21 February 2021). "Georgia's Trump-loving alt-right begin broadcasting on TV". OC Media. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Alt-Info". Myth Detector. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b Treasury Sanctions Georgian Officials and Extremists for Serious Human Rights Abuse, United States Department of the Treasury, 16 September 2024, Wikidata Q131581205, archived from the original on 20 October 2024
  6. ^ "Alt-Info".
  7. ^ "Interrogation of Guram Palavandishvili and Alt-Info members over". Report.ge. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Right-wing media outlet Alt-Info officially registered as political party". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Facebook Removes Networks Linked to Alliance of Patriots, Alt-info". Civil.ge. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Georgian hackers shut down Alt-info website". queer.ge. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Pro-Russian Alt- Info Channel Goes Off Air". Civil Georgia. 29 October 2024.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-Info