Eliot Higgins

Award-Winning Journalist & Founder of the Brown Moses Blog and Bellingcat

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Eliot Higgins is an award-winning investigative journalist, and founder of the Brown Moses Blog and Bellingcat (an international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open-source and social media to probe some of the world's most pressing stories). He also sits on the advisory board of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and has been a visiting research associate at King's College London as well as the University of California Berkeley. Read More >

Higgins has helped inaugurate open-source and social media investigations by trawling through vast amounts of data uploaded constantly on to the web and social media sites. His inquiries have revealed extraordinary findings on subjects such as Assad's use of chemical weapons, how MH17 was shot down, revealing a Kremlin kill team, locating ISIS supporters in Europe, disinformation about COVID and even the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol. Read Less ^