• Research Associate, Caucasus
  • Contact email: sgelava1@atlanticcouncil.org
  • Media queries: dfrlabmedia@atlanticcouncil.org

Sopo Gelava

Sopo Gelava is a research associate for the Caucasus with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Prior to the DFRLab, she served as media literacy programs director at Media Development Foundation, leading Georgian think-tank countering disinformation and information operations. Sopo teaches fact-checking and verification courses at the University of Georgia (UG) and is leading the Investigative Media Lab at the university.

March 2024

Suspicious Facebook assets amplify pro-Kremlin Bulgarian ‘mushroom’ websites

by Sopo Gelava

More than one hundred Facebook assets promoted links to external websites sharing pro-Kremlin propaganda in Bulgaria
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March 2024

Stalin lionized on Georgian TikTok

by Sopo Gelava

TikTok videos promote myths about late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, portraying him as a religious, well-educated strongman
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February 2024

Undermining Ukraine: How Russia widened its global information war in 2023

by the Digital Forensic Research Lab

On the battlefield, Russia has made strategic gains. In the information sphere, it has the resources and will to outlast the West.
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