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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 Fake news of the week: Zelenskiy takes Ukrainian gold out to Poland and prepares to flee

That the news is made up from beginning to end

22 July 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Ukraine sells off weapons handed over to the AFU by Western countries

We found that very interview with Vadim Melnik on "Ukraine 24"

15 July 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Ukrainians burn down Orthodox churches and the Pope walks around with an LGBT cross

So it's not all LGBT that's rainbow

08 July 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Poland is deporting all Ukrainians of recruitment age back to Ukraine

Apparently, the Mash editors soon realised that they went a little too far with the lies so they deleted the post

01 July 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: A refugee from North Korea talks about the horrors of life in the United States

Russia’s First Channel has trimmed the Korean woman's statement, changing its essence exactly in the opposite direction

24 June 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: "Ukrainian women are lying about being raped by Russian soldiers" - Olga Skobeeva

The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office has already filed the first rape case to court and announced the name of the accused, as well as his place of service in the Russian army

17 June 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: "Pfizer" wants to reduce the world's population by 50%!

The Pfizer company openly states that it wants to halve the world's population. This news has been posted on many Telegram channels, including the "Yellow Plums"

10 June 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Most of the sex workers in Europe come from Ukraine!

In the 2019 survey Ukraine ranks third among the top 10 countries supplying sex workers to the global market. And Russia is already in the first place

03 June 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: 40% of Latvia's population is Russian. How Russian propaganda equates knowing Russian to defining oneself as "Russian"

Not everyone in Latvia supports Russia's aggression against Ukraine

27 May 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Due to Russia’s decision Finland will soon be left without electricity

Finland is the largest buyer of Russian electricity. And for Finland, Russian electricity accounts for mere 10% of all the electricity consumed in the country. There they consume 86 billion kilowatts per hour in a year

20 May 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: Andrzej Duda is the grandson of a Ukrainian nationalist. Shocking facts about the President of Poland

The Russian telegram channel "Day Z" published a post that which says that Polish President Andrzej Duda's grandfather was allegedly a Ukrainian nationalist and would kill Poles

13 May 2022 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fake news of the week: George Soros - a Jew in Hitler's service

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azar told the Belta news agency that a financier, Jew George Soros, served the Reich

06 May 2022 Read Article