Alt-Info

Alt-Info is a private TV Company and online information portal in Georgia. It is self-designated Christian right conservative media platform. Alt-Info was granted an authorisation by Georgian National Communications Commission on November 2020.[1] They launched TV broadcasting on January 2021. Alt-Info Ltd. was founded by Shota Martinenko and Ciala Morgoshia on January 2019, who are also owners of 50-50% of the shares.[2]

Alt-Info is known for Euroscepticism, criticism of the USA influence on Georgia, LGBT social movements, Drug liberalization, gender theory and feminism,[3] sex education, abortion, laissez-faire economics, Georgia’s immigration policy, political correctness, cancel culture, the support of a codification based on christian ethics, protectionism, import substitution industrialization, Donald Trump and a more pragmatic foreign policy with Russia. It has been involved in demonstrations and protests, including the 2021 Tbilisi Pride protests.[4] Its critics such as Myth Detector and ISFED have described it as a platform with ″homophobic, xenophobic, anti-Western and anti-Liberal″ editorial policy, although Alt-Info has denounced these accusations.[5]

Alt-Info is associated with the former founding member of Georgian March and Alliance of Patriots, businessman Konstantine Morgoshia and the non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity Alternative for Georgia.[2]

Reference
  1. "მაუწყებლობის ავტორიზაციები". Communications Commission. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  2. "Alt-Info". Myth Detector. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  3. "Antifeminism in New Nationalist Discourse" (PDF). Women's Fund in Georgia. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  4. "Interrogation of Guram Palavandishvili and Alt-Info members over". Report.ge. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  5. "5 ივლისი. „ალტ-ინფოს" „უხილავი ხელი"?!". Mediacritic.ge. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
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