For the documentary film, see Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World.
Bellingcat
Type of site
Investigative journalism
Available in
English
Russian
French
Spanish
Ukrainian
Headquarters
Amsterdam
,
Netherlands[1]
Owner
Stichting Bellingcat[2] formerly: Brown Moses Media Ltd.[3][4]
Created by
Eliot Higgins
URL
bellingcat.com
Launched
2014; 10 years ago (2014)
Bellingcat (stylised bell¿ngcat) is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT).[5] It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.[6] Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies.[7]
Bellingcat began as an investigation into the use of weapons in the Syrian civil war. Its reports on the Russo-Ukrainian War (including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17), the El Junquito raid, the Yemeni Civil War, the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and the killing of civilians by the Cameroon Armed Forces have attracted international attention.[5]
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^"General Information". Bellingcat. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
^Higgins, Eliot (15 July 2014). "What is Bellingcat". Brown Moses Blog. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2021. Inactive since July 2014
^ abAhmad, Muhammad Idrees (10 June 2019). "Bellingcat and How Open Source Reinvented Investigative Journalism". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
^"How Bellingcat became Russia's 'biggest nightmare'". Radio France Internationale. Paris. Agence France-Presse. 7 September 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
^"Bellingcat, Netherlands". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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[citation needed] The Daily Beast noted that "20 GRU operatives outed by Bellingcat in recent years, including those suspected of poisoning Skripal, have...
28, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2023. "The Journey of Ashli Babbitt". Bellingcat. January 8, 2021. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021. Retrieved...
service of the Russian Federation. On 8 October 2018, investigative website Bellingcat and its partner The Insider claimed that Mishkin was one of the suspects...
Retrieved 2015-09-11. "bellingcat - MH17 - Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence". bellingcat.com. 2015-05-31. Retrieved...
weapons by Assad’s forces in the Syrian Civil War, and, according to Bellingcat, "promoted pro-regime propaganda". According to The Daily Beast, Susli...
the veneer of a legitimate UK enterprise”. The investigative website Bellingcat "found SLPs trading in high-risk money laundering areas, operating unregulated...
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concepts have also been incorporated by other conspiracy theories. In 2022, Bellingcat compared NESARA/GESARA to a "grandfather" of QAnon and reported that as...
2024-04-16. Team, Bellingcat Investigation (2019-07-09). "The Arrest of Vladimir Tsemakh and Its Implications for the MH17 Investigation". bellingcat. Retrieved...
şahıslar tarafından bilinmesi durumu, büyük ölçüde önlenmiş bulunmaktadır. Bellingcat Investigation Team (October 15, 2018). "Examining CCTV Videos of the Saudi...
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and longitude of "Null,Null" or "0,0". As reported in January 2018 by Bellingcat, other data mapped to the location include activity events from the Strava...
Fritts' selenium cells, was installed in 1884 on a New York City rooftop. Bellingcat, however, attributes a photo of the cells to the roof of George Cove's...
Wirecard's executive team were terminated on 18 June 2020. According to Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website, Marsalek told colleagues he was...
August 2023). "Revealing Andrew Tate's Secretive War Room "Brothers"". bellingcat. Retrieved 16 December 2023. Dickson, Ej (25 July 2023). "Leaked Texts...
investigated, along with other similar cases, by Christo Grozev of Bellingcat. Bellingcat describes a "striking resemblance" between the poisoning of Bykov...
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