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Research, fact-checks, explainers and resources from Unity Bridge, preserved with their original publication dates.
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A presenter on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio said that fewer than 3.5% of people in Belarus have low incomes, compared with allegedly 25.6% in Latvia, 22.2% in Lithuania and 16% in Poland. The figures…
Read article →A presenter on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio claimed that Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia spend an amount equal to roughly one third of each resident's average monthly salary on aid to Ukraine and…
Read article →A Belarusian media project claimed that Latvia's recommended 300% increase in charges for transporting grain from Russia and Belarus would make grain three times more expensive for buyers in Germany and France.
Read article →A Belarusian state television segment suggested that weather balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes fly only into Lithuania even though Poland also borders Belarus. The question was presented as an anomaly and a reason to…
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Belarusian state media claimed that Latvia's food security is only 27% guaranteed and that the country's agriculture supplies less than one third of its food needs. They cited Latvia's agricultural development plan…
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Belarusian state television claimed that Lithuania's 2026 military budget is ten times larger than Belarus's, while Poland's is hundreds of times larger. In another broadcast, the same commentator put all Belarusian…
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Belarusian state media claimed that Poland has 2.4 doctors per 1,000 residents, supposedly half the EU average and about one and a half times fewer than Belarus. Poland was also described as the EU country with the…
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A video of a large demonstration in Thessaloniki is being shared on social media with captions claiming that Greece is now paralysed by mass protests and that airports, ports, factories and trains have stopped.
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5G mobile networks supposedly cause COVID-19 or transmit the coronavirus. This is a check of an established myth, not a report of a new disinformation surge in September 2026.
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Oxford residents will supposedly be allowed to leave their neighbourhood only 100 days a year, with council permission required for other journeys. This story is linked to the idea of a 15-minute city.
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Heating food in a microwave oven supposedly makes it radioactive and therefore dangerous to eat.
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The European Union allegedly authorised insect powder in ordinary foods without telling shoppers, meaning people will eat it without knowing.
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The European Union is allegedly preparing to phase out cash by replacing it with the digital euro. Veridica examined this claim by Romanian Member of the European Parliament Gheorghe Piperea. In the passage it…
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A report on Belarusian television channel ONT presented the new Horizont H-book as an almost entirely Belarusian product. The head of the holding company said, "We make everything ourselves," and identified the casing as…
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A Belarusian Radio broadcast claimed that visas for Ukrainian citizens travelling to the European Union would become paid again from the end of 2026. The presenter cited a mandatory travel authorisation costing EUR 20 as…
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A Belarus-RTR broadcast claimed that Latvia has about 300,000 government officials, meaning that roughly one in six residents is allegedly an official, while only about 500,000 working people support the country's…
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Polish businesses are allegedly heading rapidly towards bankruptcy, and empty corridors in the Renoma shopping centre in Wrocław show that an economic crisis has already emptied the shops.
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Western scientists allegedly proposed destroying society and forcibly reducing the world's population to preserve natural resources.
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Belarus allegedly has the cleanest air, water and food in the world.
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State media claimed that crop yields in Belarus had risen almost 1.8-fold in 2026 and that the country was nearly level with Lithuania in wheat yields.
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Belarusian pensioners can allegedly travel around the world on their pension just as pensioners in European countries do.
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A guest on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio claimed that boilers and nuclear energy equipment account for about 5% of Lithuanian exports, supposedly showing that Lithuania still earns money by selling…
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Figures for foreign entries and Belarus's position in an international table have been presented in the Belarusian information space as proof that the country has become a more attractive tourist destination than Poland…
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A presenter on Belarusian state television channel CTV claimed that Europe had classified air conditioners as luxury items because of the green agenda, leaving Europeans without affordable cooling and putting the…
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Belarusian political commentator Piotr Piatrouski claimed that Ukrainians had never wanted to join NATO and that the membership course was imposed on society after 2014.
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A broadcast on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio claimed that the Baltic states lost their industries, railways and transport systems after joining the European Union. The formula was sweeping: "no railways…
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Belarusian state television channel STV reported that significantly more people in Lithuania support easing or fully removing sanctions on Belarus than maintaining or tightening the current policy.
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Videos designed to look like reports by established media circulated on social platforms and anonymous Telegram channels. One claimed that Poland was preparing to deport 50,000 Ukrainians because relations with Ukraine…
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There are accounts in Latvia's Russian-speaking political TikTok space that are operated from Belarus. Some readings turn this into a broader claim: that hidden foreign control over Latvia's Russian-speaking politics has…
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Polish-language Radio Belarus channels on TikTok, YouTube, X and Facebook were ordinary foreign media and did not create a meaningful risk for Polish elections, despite EU sanctions against the Belarusian state…
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Belarusian and pro-Kremlin framing described the balloon incidents from Belarus into Lithuania as ordinary cigarette smuggling, while portraying Lithuania's response as excessive, panicked or aimed at military…
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Social media posts and Kremlin-aligned narratives claim that Lithuania is secretly preparing a facility to import and store radioactive waste from across Europe, creating a risk of environmental disaster.
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A narrative in the Russian-language and Belarus-linked information space claimed that Lithuanian authorities are creating panic about threats from the east, preparing mass evacuation, and sacrificing citizens' wellbeing…
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A narrative circulated on social media claiming that Lithuania is allegedly not an independent state because its currency, migration policy, border control and security policy are connected to the EU and NATO.
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Belarusian authorities have claimed that terrorist sleeper cells were uncovered in Belarus and were linked to Germany, the United States, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, as well as to plans for violent regime change.
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Facebook and Instagram ads in Russian and other languages claimed to represent Interpol, Europol or cyber police and promised to help online scam victims recover lost money.
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Belarusian state media claimed that Europe is facing a wave of repression against dates linked to the victory over Nazism, and that May 9 commemorations and flower laying are effectively banned.
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When Belarusian state media cite the Polish-language site Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny, this looks like independent confirmation from Poland.
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Belarusian official sources and Alexander Lukashenko claim that Western sanctions and transit restrictions on Belarusian potash fertilizers threaten global food security and harm countries that need fertilizers.
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Unity Bridge supports civil society organisations, journalists, activists, independent media and vulnerable communities facing digital harms. Our work focuses on online manipulation, harassment, phishing and…
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Russia's Foreign Ministry said Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia pursue unlawful policies against Russians and Russian-speaking residents, including bans on the Russian language, rewriting history and persecution of dissent.…
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Belarusian and Russian officials present joint nuclear drills in Belarus as a planned and defensive training event that is not aimed at any specific country and does not threaten regional security.
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Belarusian state media and related pro-Kremlin messaging regularly portray Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and other EU countries as a military threat to Belarus and as participants in aggressive pressure against…
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Russian officials claim that Latvia and other Baltic states allow Ukraine to use their territory or airspace to launch drones or conduct drone strikes against Russia.
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Claim: Lithuania faces a real extremist “Litvinist” threat from Belarusian exiles, and recent tensions between Belarusians and Lithuanian groups are mainly organic local conflict.
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