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
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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
Last week, the TV news agency of the "Belarus-1" TV channel declared itself a source of truth and pitied American viewers for not having access to ATN as they do not know that Volodymyr Zelensky actually did not visit a military hospital
On 1 March, the Russian press spread information that the OSCE mission had left Donetsk and Ukrainian nationalists had seized it. It was reported by the Russian state news agency
Alyaksandar Lukashenka has repeatedly claimed that Russia is not going to attack Ukraine. He even shamed foreign special services for spreading "rumors" about it
Marat Markov, the head of the ONT TV channel, decided to explain how the new draft constitution differs from the old one, and for this purpose, he invited philosopher Mikalay Shchokin
Andrey Mukavozchyk, a columnist at the publishing house "Belarus Today", compared the protests in Belarus and in Kazakhstan and derived a formula for the percentage of the protest population in the post-Soviet countries on the STV TV channel
The protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2. But the Mir TV channel, created specifically to cover the news of the CIS countries, kept ignoring the turmoil during the first days of rioting
"Batska (Father - Lukashenka’s nickname) is better than Maidan," - not only the TG-channel "Your Plums" thinks so, but also, according to this resource, Ukrainians who took part in the "Radio Liberty" survey
In the last issue of "Sly news" of the outgoing 2021, we decided to collect the most outstanding fakes from Alyaksandar Lukashenka and at the beginning of this "hit parade" is, of course, the lie that no-one beat the demonstrators in the temporary detention centre Okrestina in Minsk in August 2020