We Are Bellingcat
By Eliot Higgins
Global Crime, Online Sleuths and the Bold Future of News. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Summary of We Are Bellingcat book by Eliot Higgins
An amateur online investigator compiles evidence of war crimes and cracks global murder cases, changing the course of traditional reporting and detective work with his innovative strategies.
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What do you get from this book? The corroborated truth of criminal acts reported online—without the coverups
Jumping into the horrors of war, murder, and international crime could only begin to quench Higgins’s thirst for knowledge
Higgins used open–source intel, free for the taking, to verify the use of barrel bombs and who dropped them
The enigmatic Brown Moses became an international news phenomenon with his coverage of the Syrian conflict
Chemical weapons attacks near Damascus lead to a barbaric discovery by Higgins and his team
Three days after the inception of Bellingcat, a major disaster stuns the world
Bellingcat’s outreach is massive—culprits may run, but they can’t hide!
The digital world can be a stomping ground for ugly games and Information Wars
Bellingcat helped expose online hate spilled on American soil and in a New Zealand mosque
Calling all sleuths—an appeal to the public helps Bellingcat identify criminals
The Bellingcat way dismantles a spy story and calls out top military officials
Viewing thousands of photos and videos portraying death and destruction takes on toll on those analyzing them
The Bellingcat community preps for the future and optimizes its methods of open–source investigations
There are both precarious perils and potential promises of the future for open–source intelligence
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Who should read We Are Bellingcat book
- Those who seek the truth
- journalists and reporters
- politicians
- law enforcement officials
- military personnel
- followers of social media and global events
About the author of We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins
British citizen Eliot Higgins obsessively investigates worldwide crime, leaving no open-source information unturned in his pursuit of the truth. He is a research fellow at University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and a member of the International Criminal Court’s Technology Advisory Board. He started an online blog under the alias Brown Moses and founded Bellingcat, an online intelligence agency, that exposes and helps solve global crimes.
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