BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link
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.
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.
A triathlete from Canada is going to sue the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the state-run TV Belarus-1 reported.
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.
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.
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.
Belarusian medical professionals are relegated to menial roles in the Polish healthcare system, as the Telegram channel “ZhS Premium” claims.
According to a Belarusian MP, Reserve Colonel Anatoly Bulavko, the missile that hit the Kyiv Clinic for the protection of motherhood and childhood "Okhmatdyt" was not a Russian one.
The WTF team checked the thickness of officials' wallets in Moldova and compared them with Belarusian officials' salaries.
The Weekly Top Fake team investigated the details of the alleged collapse of the German industry.
The Weekly Top Fake team studied the historical gas price data in Latvia.
The Weekly Top Fake team investigated what the report actually says.
