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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 07 August "Unprecedented record in modern Russia." An RT journalist made up a record that never happened

Konstantin Pridybaylo compared the success of the lead singer of the folk group Zolotoe Koltso to that of the pop band Ruki Vverh.

Fakes of the week

06 August "The European Union is a prison of nations!" A Belarusian Telegram channel claimed there are a million prisoners but confused the territories

05 August “There’s less and less work in the U.S.” Debunking political scientist Yelfimov’s arguments

04 August While discussing the “children of the elite,” political scientist Lazutkin “buried” Poroshenko’s grandson

01 August Catching the Pentagon’s bluff? Radio Minsk questions U.S. Patriot pledge but gets the facts wrong

31 July Is every other TV set in Russia made by Horizont? Yes, but there’s a catch

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Poland has the most polluted air in the world.’ Claim by ‘ZhS Premium’ Fact-Checked

In total, the “dirty” list worldwide includes 120 megacities, with no Belarusian cities represented.

02 October 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ZhS Premium: A mother and daughter fleeing floods in Poland were turned away from a hotel that was full of Ukrainians. We spoke with the woman

ZhS Premium and Yuri Podolyaka claimed that a mother and daughter fleeing floods in Poland were denied a hotel room because it was fully booked by Ukrainians. We spoke with the woman.

01 October 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Belarus 1 host: Germans are heading for Australia, Japan and the U.S. Here’s what he left out—and where the facts don’t match his story

A Belarus 1 host claimed that highly skilled professionals are leaving Germany for Australia, Japan and the U.S. The WTF team looked into the actual numbers.

30 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck The Belarus 1 host backed up his claims of a dramatic collapse in Irish industry in 2023 by citing statistics from a single random month

WTF team reviewed the British business paper’s story and found that Baltnews got it wrong.

27 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Will defense spending go up while social programs are slashed? Three ways Estonia’s official policy differs from BT’s claims

In Belarus, the average pension is about 800 rubles, or roughly €220—three and a half times less than in Estonia.

26 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Three percent support for Lukashenko: How a Polish analyst’s claims diverged from poll results

Polish analyst Tomasz Gryguć claimed that Poles support Lukashenko. The WTF team investigated how far his statements are from reality.

25 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Did President of Lithuania Suggest Introducing Quotas for Entering or Exiting Country? “ZhS Premium” Misrepresented Gitanas Nausėda’s Words

In fact, the opposite is true in Lithuania: there are too many arrivals.

24 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Silence of Chernobyl Victims Support Cuts Amidst Speech Recalls. Journalist Groerov On Lukashenko as Hero in Chernobyl Disaster Case

Some categories are entitled to medicines on prescription with a 90% discount.

23 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘BBC News Published Piece with Thousands of Facts About Ukrainian Nazism’. Ivan Eismont Backs up His Claim with Fake Video

We found a photo of two men with tattoos on the Instagram of one of them. He published it before the war, in August 2020.

20 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Belarus Among Top Global Inflation Leaders.’ Economists’s Yaroslav Romanchuk False Claim Scrutinized

The National Bank of Belarus prognoses that the inflation rate will not exceed 6% in 2024.

19 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘Western Countries Lead in Suicide Rate Statistics.’ Wrong Data from “ZhS Premium” Fact-checked

The “ZhS Premium” did not specify that the list included only some countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

18 September 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ‘One in Ten Tractors Globally is Belarusian.’ Inflated Figures on Lukashenko’s Birthday Fact-checked

“Belarusian vehicles, like Swiss ones, are a global brand. Approximately every tenth tractor on the planet is a ‘Belarus’ tractor.”

17 September 2024 Read Article

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