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Baltic Engagement Centre for Combating Information Disorders (BECID) is a network of experts working to combat information disorders and promote media literacy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Fact-checks

en 2024 08 28
Is Crimea Really Not Part of Ukraine?
en 2024 07 12
Will Table Salt Consumption Cause More Than One Billion Deaths by 2030?
en 2024 06 25
Are Amish children the healthiest in the world?
en 2024 05 21
Will people be forced to eat plastic eggs?
en 2024 05 21
Debunking an old myth about plastic rice: no, the rice in this video is not made of plastic
en 2024 05 20
What does the little green frog logo on food products mean?
en 2024 05 20
Do heaters installed all over the world cause the climate crisis and cancer?
en 2024 04 30
Did Zelensky’s mother-in-law buy a €5 million villa in Egypt, and the journalist who reported it was killed?
en 2024 04 29
Did Zelensky really buy two luxury yachts worth €70 million?
en 2024 04 29
Does Bill Gates plan replacing table salt with new mRNA fake salt?
en 2024 04 25
Does Lithuania really should be grateful to Russia both for Vilnius and Klaipėda?
en 2024 04 02
FACT CHECK | No, climate ministry staff do not earn €17,000 per month
en 2024 04 02
FACT CHECK | Estonia has not sent soldiers to Ukraine – it’s Russian propaganda
en 2024 04 02
FACT CHECK | Portal „Eesti Eest!“ spreads false information about the Mariupol „bio labs“ and justifies Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2)
en 2024 04 02
FACT CHECK | European Union has no plans to ban the repair of old cars
en 2024 03 28
Is it true that Zelenska‘s Foundation is involved in child trafficking?
en 2024 03 28
Is it true that Spain decriminalized bestiality?
en 2024 03 28
FACT CHECK | Estonia has not sent soldiers to Ukraine – it’s Russian propaganda
en 2024 03 28
FACT CHECK | No, climate ministry staff do not earn €17,000 per month
en 2024 03 28
FACT CHECK | European Union has no plans to ban the repair of old cars
en 2024 03 28
FACT CHECK | Portal „Eesti Eest!“ spreads false information about the Mariupol „bio labs“ and justifies Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
en 2024 03 26
Has Klaus Schwab‘s daughter threatened with permanent climate restrictions?
en 2024 03 26
Did the UN Charter grant Russia the right to attack countries under the pretext of fighting Nazism?
en 2024 03 15
Jordan Peterson has tried to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
en 2024 03 15
The odious Ernests Rieksts keeps lying about Latvia
en 2024 03 15
Rinkevics received a real award in Ukraine
en 2024 03 15
Fire stations near nature reserves are not being closed
en 2024 03 15
Greta Thunberg is not advocating for “nature-friendly” rockets
en 2024 03 15
Fact Check: AI-generated nude pictures of Swift flood ‘X’ but singer has not commented on them
en 2024 03 15
Fact check: The right to impose a four-month travel ban is not linked to threats to the country.
en 2024 01 25
Does the WHO pandemic treaty threaten the sovereignty of nations?
en 2023 12 13
Will the European Parliament abolish the notions of father and mother?
en 2023 12 12
Did the plane freeze to the ground and was it on its way to the Climate Change Conference in Dubai?
en 2023 10 16
What does the PEFC label mean and should it cause fear?
en 2023 09 08
Will there be compulsory vaccination in Latvia?
en 2023 08 10
In California, do parents lose custody if they fail to pay for their child’s gender reassignment?
en 2023 03 03
“A gay club instead of the Russian theatre in Riga” or the power of imagination in Russian propaganda

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Past Events

Meeting with Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck, Executive Director & Founder of The Lie Detectors

Johannes Voltri: „How Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania counter Russian disinfo? Comparing approaches”

Webinar | Stay sharp during elections – How cognitive biases and media influence our decisions

Diana Poudel’s public lecture “Empowering communities to foster media literacy and combat disinformation”

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