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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 are the recipients of the national award “Free Word” from the Association of Journalists of Belarus in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. At "Free Word" 2021 BIC’s team also received first place for Analytics

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

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. PMC Wagner rebellion strengthened Putin, Russians strike with Ukrainian missiles, foreign investors are useless for Belarus

Further: Ukrainians are upset by the dead "Titan" submersible's crew wasted money. Russian cruise missile hit foreign mercenaries in cafe in Kramatorsk. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

06/07 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Wagner rebellion scares Poland, War is beneficial to Ukrainian authorities, Minsk economy grows almost as well as the Chinese

Further: Belarusian TV confuses two protests in Moldova — an action against the postponement of Victory Day and an opposition one. Belarussian propaganda diagnoses the President of France on the basis of a fake video. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

29/06 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Ukraine's ultimatum to Elon Musk, US LGBTQ+ get benefits, China's on the Russia side

Further: quotes from The NY Times are taken out of context and a fake dark-skinned Angolan fighting against Ukraine. Top-5 Fake News spotted by Weekly Top Fake team.

22/06 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. US CIA confirmes participation in war in Ukraine, British are outraged by Tikhanouskaya award, Prime Minister of Luxembourg insults Zelensky

Another Nazi relative of German Chancellor and undrowned animals from zoo in Nova Kakhovka. Top-5 Fake News spotted by Weekly Top Fake team.

15/06 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Belarus and Russia share nuclear button, Polish border guards mock migrants, Collective East countries unite against the West

Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

08/06 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Satanic gift to Pope Francis, Crimea citizens liquidation plan, number of HIV-infected people in Belarus, and iodine deficiency in Ukraine

Expecting a Ukrainian counteroffensive, pro-Russian war propaganda continues to mount tension in the media.

01/06 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. Explosions in Khmelnytskyi cause a radioactive cloud to move to Europe

In Lublin, Poland, the level of radiation has increased, the Telegram channel after former Israeli intelligence officer Yakov Kedmi claimed. Belarusian and Russian state-run media picked up this message.

25/05 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. European Commission head’s grandfather was Nazi?

The Geneastar.org website presents the family tree of Ursula von der Leyen.

18/05 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. Nobel academicians considered Hitler the guarantor of Europe’s peaceful future

To discredit decisions of the Nobel Committee, the state-run TV channel "Belarus-1" demonstrated a film about his alleged "Hypocrisy and Corruption".

11/05 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. US to reconnect Russian banks to SWIFT

Russia announces withdrawal from the grain deal with Ukraine. And as a condition, Russia demands reconnection to SWIFT for some banks turned off last year due to anti-war sanctions.

03/05 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. Ukraine is responsible for world hunger and nations' exodus predicted by UN’s head

A fake video from the trench with the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko was posted on the YouTube channel of state-run media “SB.BY Belarus Today”.

27/04 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. “We will meet soon,” Solovyov commented on the death of Tatarsky

Since 2022 Vladimir Solovyov hasn’t updated his Twitter account.

19/04 Read Article