BBC Science Focus Magazine
Bellingcat, the intelligence organisation, has broken some of the biggest stories of the decade. Their investigators proved that Bashar al-Assad fired chemical weapons at his own people, they discovered who downed flight MH17 and, most recently, they put Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on the phone with one of the men sent to assassinate him.
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Theyâre not spies, and theyâre not trained, so how do these laptop-wielding âamateursâ hold power to account? Bellingcatâs founder Eliot Higgins talks toÂ
BBC Science Focus editor Daniel Bennett about why people need an intelligence agency, how internet investigations work and how we can fight misinformation.