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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

Top fakes of the week 01 April “Lukashenko’s a real champ, people are happy with everything.” A Minskaya Pravda anchor claimed something that simply wasn’t true

Marina Subbota skewed the content of a Washington Post article.

Fakes of the week

31 March Lifting sanctions to save the dollar? Voskresensky twisted the facts on U.S. sanctions

28 March Zemlya Nasha published a fabricated report claiming USAID misspent funds on “posts, likes and reposts” opposing the annexation of Crimea

27 March “So why are they laying mines on the border?” Belarusian lawmaker Gigin failed to answer his own question about Poland accurately

26 March BT used a video filmed in Crimea to back claims of a crisis in Latvia

25 March Did Reporters Without Borders accuse Zelensky of journalists' deaths in Ukraine? We found the original video

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck Fact Check: Has Germany Turned to Firewood? Belarussian Colonel Bogodel Points to a Frozen Europe

The Weekly Top Fake team compared Germany's energy 2023 balance with the 2021 report when Russia had still been supplying gas there.

23 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Olympic-Sized Lie: Macron Booing Video Aired by Belarusian and Russian Media Fact-Checked

The WTF team has already debunked a similar fake about the French President.

22 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘News Segment from Russian Sudzha was Staged in Ukraine’. “Russia Today” Host's False Claim About Fake News on Ukrainian TV

Konstantin Prydybaylo, a correspondent for “Russia Today”, the pro-government media outlet, called out the Ukrainian TV channel TSN, for broadcasting a fake news segment on August 14, 2024.

21 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘U.S. Sucks Iraq Dry of All Its Oil.’ Reality Behind False MP Klishevich's Statement

Journalists from Weekly Top Fake investigated and found out that Iraq’s oil is not controlled by the US, but rather by a group of countries, including Russia.

16 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Lithuania Spends Nearly Half a Million Euros per Month on Tsikhanouskaya.’ MP Klishevich False Claim Fact-Checked

Sergei Klishevich spoke about Lithuania's expenses for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

15 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Right Last Name—Wrong Guy. Azarenok and Petrovsky Falsely Blamed Oppositionist Kara-Murza for Betraying His Father

Both Belarusian pro-government media personality Grigory Azarenok and political scientist Pyotr Petrovsky falsely claimed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was a family member of Sergei Kara-Murza, a chemical scientist and publicist of the USSR and Russia.

14 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Former Men” Winning in Women's Boxing? Athletes’ Gender Expertise by Both Lipsky and Azarenok Fact-Checked

Belarusian sports correspondent for state-run TV channel Belarus-1, Stanislav Lipsky, claimed that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who participated in the Olympic Games, was actually born a man, not a woman.

13 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Canadian Athlete Felt Ill After Swimming in River Seine Due to Water Quality’. Belarusian TV’s Words are Denied by Sportsperson Himself

A triathlete from Canada is going to sue the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the state-run TV Belarus-1 reported.

12 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Broadcasting of 2024 Paris Olympic Games is Banned in 210 Countries.’ Fake News Reported by BelTA

On July 26, the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics featured a scene resembling Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper,” which some religious groups deemed offensive.

09 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘In the US During the Red Scare, More People Were Repressed Than Under Stalin.’ False Claim by Petrovsky and Azarenok Fact-Checked

In the US during the McCarthy era, more people were killed than during the Stalinist repressions in the USSR. This claim was made by political scientist Piotr Petrovsky and media personality Grigory Azaryonok on a Belarussian state-run media outlet.

08 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Novelist, Lawmaker, Spy, and the Prototype for a Call of Duty Character? WTF Fact-Checked Claims Made by Russian Butina

Maria Butina, the Russian woman who was accused in 2018 of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent in the United States on behalf of Russia, claims that Americans are profiting off her image in a video game.

07 August 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Belarusian Doctors in Poland Can Only Get Jobs as Orderlies.” Is That Really Case?

Belarusian medical professionals are relegated to menial roles in the Polish healthcare system, as the Telegram channel “ZhS Premium” claims.

06 August 2024 Read Article