Exposing Shady Gold Traders, Illegal Gun Traffickers and Government Lies
Credit.John Gall
WE ARE BELLINGCAT
By Eliot Higgins
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Higgins, a college dropout in Leicester, in the heart of Middle England, was working a dead-end office job when he became obsessed with unearthing the truth in war zones using little more than YouTube and geolocation. Rejecting what he terms “cyber-miserabilism” and critics who argue the internet has obliterated civil society and destroyed journalism, he saw cyberspace as a bottomless well of open-source material available to anyone who cared to look.
He began to break exclusives troop movements and rebel victories in Libya, the use of cluster munitions by Bashar al-Assad on his own people. As Higgins’s fascinating book unfolds, he evolves from a lone digital Sherlock Holmes to the head of Bellingcat: a conglomerate of researchers battling the “counterfactual community,” Syrian government propaganda, powerful Russian trolls and governme
New-york
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Moscow
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Russia
Honduras
Malaysia
Brazil
Florida
Colombia
Syria
Kremlin