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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 Top 5 Fake News. Depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds are a highly radioactive

Whether the radioactivity of depleted uranium is dangerous to human health is not known for certain, and medical research is contradictory.

05 April 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. In the West, the retirement age comes shortly before death

A man retires at 63 in Belarus, and in France at 62. If the reform is adopted, he will retire at 64.

29 March 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News. Washington distracts from the investigation of Nord Stream pipeline blasts

Ukraine allegedly exports its fertile layer of land abroad. Do you believe?

22 March 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake News: Belarusian automobile manufacturing renders car import redundant

In 2022, 4.5 thousand Geely cars total were sold in Belarus.

15 March 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news weekly. Belarusian economy has adapted to the sanction

Actually not. National Statistical Committee of Belarus has finally summed up and published the results of 2022. And here is the whole picture drawn.

08 March 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news of the week: A predictor Sediq Afghan is officially under the protection of the UN as a heritage of humankind

The Afghan prophet has recently gained huge popularity in Russia, since he predicts Ukraine losing the war and supposedly never makes mistakes.

02 March 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news weekly. Soldiers were buried in the city park in Ukraine

Deliberate disinformation in order to exaggerate Ukraine's losses in the war.

22 February 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news of the week: Zimbabwe is the world’s leader in lithium reserves

The fake appeared amid talks about Lukashenka negotiating about Lithium in favor of Russia, where the production of lithium-ion batteries is under threat there due to the western sanctions.

15 February 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Фэйкі тыдня: Байцы ПВК "Вагнер" не здаюцца ў палон

Выкрыццё фэйкаў. У Менску падтрымалі Прыгожына і працягнулі руку апазіцыі.

09 February 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news of the week: a TV set of the future

On air of the ONT TV Channel an economic analyst Georgy Grits stated that Belarus is a rather innovative country, according to international ratings.

01 February 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news of the week: President Biden’s executive assistant found dead

Oddly, the name of that executive assistant of the president, Francis Underwood, coincides with the name of the fictional character in Netflix's series 'House of Cards'.

25 January 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top 5 Fake news of the week: Belarusian propaganda has missed the protests so much that it has already started making them up itself

Journalists of the TV channel "Belarus-1" passed off the protests in Bratislava in 2020 against anti-Christian measures as protests in Slovakia against support for Ukraine.

20 January 2023 Read Article