Who runs the site Gakharia & Media and who is Gabriel Tsulaia

Today, March 23, the page in support of the Georgian Dream and Bidzina Ivanishvili was renamed from Bidzina Ivanishvili & Media to Gakharia & Media, and ISFED publishes details for the page and its alleged administrator.

The organization writes that the page "Bidzina Ivanishvili & Media" was created in 2011 by Gabriel Tsulaia. He held various positions in the Georgian government.

From 2013 to 2015 he held the position of the Head of the Operational Response Service of the Public Relations Department of the State Chancellery;
In 2015 - Head of Internet Communication Service, Public Relations Department, Government Administration;
In December 2017, one month after the appointment of Giorgi Gakharia as Minister of Internal Affairs, Tsulaia became the Director of the Strategic Communications Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
In September 2019, after Gakharia was appointed Prime Minister, Gabriel Tsulaia became the head of the Strategic Communications Department in the government administration.

Tsulaia resigned shortly after Gakharia resigned.

ISFED writes that the current description of the page indicates the name of the company Holon and the website at: www.holon.ge. The site is not currently active. However, the page "Holon - Business & Technology" is searched for by analogous name and page description on Facebook.Irakli Tsulaia is the owner of 100% of Holon Ltd., the author and host of the "Business Chronicle" program of Imedi TV. The advertisements of political content published on the Facebook page Holon - Business & Technology are declared and Irakli Tsulaia is indicated in the column about the identity of the payer. In addition to the general characteristics of the pages, it should be noted that the page Bidzina Ivanishvili & Media often published Irakli Tsulaia's assessments and shared news from his program, " the organization writes.

ISFED writes that the strategic agencies of strategic communications are not sharply separated from the Georgian Dream information campaigns, and that public resources, which should be used to respond to external or internal disinformation challenges, may be misused.