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We investigate corruption, uncover fake news and analyze the news agenda. The BIC is a member of the global network of investigative journalists.

Our journalists have received the Hans Staiger Investigative Award from the International Center for Journalists; the Free Media Award from the ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius and the Fritt Ord Foundation; and the Data Journalism Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Our Dubai Unlocked project was also shortlisted for the Sigma Awards.

Between 2018 and 2026, our journalists received 11 Belarusian Volnaye Slova Awards.

BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)

Antifake / Factcheck

Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link

Top fakes of the week 21 September A million hectares in two months? How Editors’ Club hosts “handed out” Ukrainian land to foreigners

On News.by, nearly five years of data were attributed to the first two months of 2026, and all of the land buyers were portrayed as foreign.

Fakes of the week

20 September Will grain prices for Germans and French consumers triple? Syrakvash presented Latvia’s transit tariff as a threat to European prices

19 September €700 billion for war? Belarusian Radio attributed the entire difference between current and planned EU budgets to military spending

18 September “Seize the private savings of EU citizens.” How SB turned voluntary investments into the confiscation of savings

17 September Did the population of the cities in Western Belarus decrease while they were under Polish rule? Vadzim Hihin began his count 11 years before incorporation into Poland

12 September “We’re going to take the Pribaltika.” On Threads, a photo taken near the Finnish border last year was presented as evidence of a troop buildup near the Baltic States’ borders

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck “We have a powerful ally.” How Belarusian Radio exaggerated China’s commitments to Belarus in the event of war

Although the treaty between Belarus and China refers to support for sovereignty and territorial integrity, it contains no commitments regarding military aid.

11 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Was the first Soviet computer created in Moldova? What is wrong with blogger Solomon Bernstein’s claim?

Computers appeared in the USSR in the early 1950s, but the enterprise Șciotmaș, based in Chișinău, was not founded until the following decade.

08 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “One of the worst indicators.” CTV news anchors confused labor productivity in Germany with its growth rate

Over the past 30 years, labor productivity in Germany has increased by 35.4%. In 2025, it was nearly three times higher than in Belarus.

07 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “The difference is simply enormous.” On state TV, all members of the BRSM were counted as volunteers when comparing the number of volunteers in Belarus and the EU

Fewer than 10% of BRSM members are volunteers, whereas 17% of European youth surveyed were involved in volunteer work.

05 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck An SBTV host claimed that EU countries are blocking Ukrainian grain. Meanwhile, transit is increasing

In August, the number of railcars transporting Ukrainian grain through Romania surged from two per day in July to nearly 50 per day.

04 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Have wind turbines left Europe without rain? News.by linked the summer heat to green energy

Although scientists acknowledge that large wind farms can influence precipitation, this effect is limited to within 60–100 km of them. In the summer, virtually no noticeable changes were observed.

03 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Are residents of the Baltic States giving a third of their salaries to Ukraine? A Belarusian Radio host misrepresented four-and-a-half years’ worth of aid as monthly expenditures

Uladzimir Kazakou denounced Western countries’ financial support for Ukraine as a “European-style scam.”

01 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Can’t Latvia feed itself? State media misrepresented the percentage of domestically produced goods as an indicator of food security

…and we compared the shares of domestically produced goods in Latvia and Belarus.

31 August 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Don’t believe pseudo-journalists.” We fact-checked Azaronak’s claims regarding the ransacking of Zadornov’s library in Latvia

The library administration replied to a request from the WTF team.

29 August 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Threats against Lukashenko and Putin? SBTV attributed a viewer’s words to the Latvian officer

The viewer asked about the “Venezuelan scenario.” Jānis Slaidiņš did not support this idea.

28 August 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Latvians are fleeing to Belarus in droves.” The 74 people were described as an “off-the-charts” influx on Belarusian Radio

Belarus ranks near the bottom of the top 20 countries where Latvians registered as living abroad reside.

27 August 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Can Europe no longer feed itself? TASS exaggerated the impact of the heatwave on the EU’s food supply

A columnist for the agency wrote that “grain, oil, wine, and sugar — the four pillars of European agricultural exports — have turned into disaster zones.”

27 August 2026 Read Article

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