Established in April 2008 by a group of professional journalists, the Media Development Foundation, MDF, is a non-governmental, non-entrepreneurial (non commercial) organization aiming to promote:
Fundamental human rights and freedoms; Open, inclusive and pluralistic society;
Professional and institutional development of media; Establishment of media
accountability and self-regulation mechanisms;
accountability and self-regulation mechanisms;
Critical thinking in a new media ecosystem and resilience building of citizens’ through
conscious media consumption;
conscious media consumption;
MDF launched its fact-checking and myth debunking platform - Myth Detector – in 2014, to uncover truth behind the lies, explore hidden agendas, raise the level of media literacy and inform both people and institutions of Georgia about the impacts of disinformation.