Please join the Intelligence Project for a conversation with Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe some of the world’s most pressing stories. In this seminar, Mr. Higgins will discuss his new book, We Are Bellingcat.
We Are Bellingcat is the story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists—working together from their computer screens around the globe, and using tools as common as Google Maps—to crack major cases. Using open-source investigation, Bellingcat proved that the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fired chemical weapons at his own people. They showed who was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014. They exposed a Kremlin kill team. They have located ISIS supporters in Europe, identified neo-Nazis rampaging through Charlottesville, helped to quash the flood of disinformation spreading alongside Covid-19, and, most recently, crowdsourced investigations into the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.
At a time when the very nature of truth has been called into question and online conspiracy theorists make headline news, We Are Bellingcat is the story of what’s right on the internet.
