{"id":511247,"date":"2026-01-21T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=511247"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:22:35","slug":"state-propaganda-constructs-an-alternative-reality-for-belarusians-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/state-propaganda-constructs-an-alternative-reality-for-belarusians-study","title":{"rendered":"State Propaganda Constructs an Alternative Reality for Belarusians \u2013 Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The FactCheck.LT<\/b> project analyzed<\/a> publications by Belarusian media in 2025 and concluded that state-owned outlets systematically construct an alternative reality.<\/p>\n

The study covers Belarusian media publications from 2025, divided into two groups in the dataset: more than 72,000 publications from independent media and 77,000 from media with state ownership. In total, around 40,000 quotations and 450,000 mentions were extracted from 150,000 processed documents.<\/p>\n

An analysis of citations reveals not merely editorial preferences, but the systematic construction of alternative realities. Readers of state media live in a world where the Belarusian opposition does not exist, Donald Trump<\/b> says nothing of significance, Lithuania remains silent, and the main allies are Hungary and a circle of pro-Russian experts, the researchers say.<\/p>\n

Readers of independent media are presented with a picture in which Ukrainian military personnel and politicians are significant actors, Belarus\u2019s democratic forces retain a voice, and Western leaders from Lithuania to the United States shape the broader context, they note.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two information spaces intersect only at an inevitable point \u2014 the figures of Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, Vladimir Putin<\/b>, and senior Russian officials. Everything else exists in parallel universes,\u201d<\/i> the authors of FactCheck.LT believe.<\/p>\n

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The FactCheck.LT project analyzed publications by Belarusian media in 2025 and concluded that state-owned outlets systematically construct an alternative reality. The study covers Belarusian media publications from 2025, divided into two groups in the dataset: more than 72,000 publications from independent media and 77,000 from media with state ownership. In total, around 40,000 quotations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6970b6ff89555.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"State Propaganda Constructs an Alternative Reality for Belarusians \u2013 Study"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}