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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 06 May Instead of 40% of Poles reporting they’ve grown poorer, the CTV anchor claimed it was nearly 70%

CTV covered a survey on how Poles assess their financial situation.

Fakes of the week

05 May Political analyst Yelfimov: Three out of four university graduates in Europe are unemployed. Let’s check the facts

02 May Did the Poles really put up a monument to a drunken Soviet soldier rapist? Here’s what communist Kruglik didn’t tell you

01 May Grandchildren of Nazis in power in the EU? We fact-checked the Russian professor’s claim

30 April The Interior Ministry reassures: Migrants from Pakistan aren’t coming, and no crimes are being committed. We found both the migrants and the crimes

29 April Did Lukashenko save Belarus’ pig farming industry? Belstat's figures challenge BelTA's narrative

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. In Ukraine, 10,000 Poles died; in Canada, newborns undergo gender reassignment surgery

Further: The video of Poroshenko with a machine gun in the trenches near Bakhmut; the Russian passport with the ‘Glory to Ukraine’ phrase; and the American doctor's refusal to treat the cat boy. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

31 August 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Thousands of children had gone missing before the war in Ukraine; German journalists insulted audience

Further: Full house at CIS-2023 Games; Plans to demolish thousands of French churches, and Passenger traffic records at Minsk Airport. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

24 August 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Sex shows with children on TV in the Netherlands; the Chinese love to travel to Belarus

Further: Ukraine and Poland are friends just until the end of the war, workers in Western countries are completely lazy, and Formula One promotes LGBTQ+. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

16 August 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. They eat human flesh in UK; Polish police beat Belarusian activists aspirating for homeland return

Further: Russia refuses to put out fires in Greece and holds unique summit, while Poland is preparing to attack. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

10 August 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Fabulous Press Conference of Lukashenko & Loneliness and Anathema of Zelensky

Further: Belarusian-speaking Mogilev region & USA as violator of international law. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

20 July 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Pedophiles and Bestiality are Defended in West, F-16s are not Supplied to Ukraine due to Slow Counteroffensive, Poland Increases Enrollment in Military Colleges

Further: Lukashenko's fantasies about Germany's destroyed economy and its nuclear energy. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

13 July 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. PMC Wagner rebellion strengthened Putin, Russians strike with Ukrainian missiles, foreign investors are useless for Belarus

Further: Ukrainians are upset by the dead "Titan" submersible's crew wasted money. Russian cruise missile hit foreign mercenaries in cafe in Kramatorsk. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

06 July 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Wagner rebellion scares Poland, War is beneficial to Ukrainian authorities, Minsk economy grows almost as well as the Chinese

Further: Belarusian TV confuses two protests in Moldova — an action against the postponement of Victory Day and an opposition one. Belarussian propaganda diagnoses the President of France on the basis of a fake video. Top-5 Fake News spotted by the Weekly Top Fake team.

29 June 2023 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Top-5 Fake News. Ukraine's ultimatum to Elon Musk, US LGBTQ+ get benefits, China's on the Russia side

Further: quotes from The NY Times are taken out of context and a fake dark-skinned Angolan fighting against Ukraine. Top-5 Fake News spotted by Weekly Top Fake team.

22 June 2023 Read Article