Eliot Ward Higgins (born January 1979),[1] who previously wrote under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and former blogger, known for using open sources and social media for investigations. He is the founder of Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence. He has investigated incidents including the Syrian Civil War, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict.[2][3]
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Eliot Ward Higgins (born January 1979), who previously wrote under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and former blogger, known...
(OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger EliotHiggins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional...
account of open source investigative journalism by EliotHiggins. The book focusses on the career of Higgins, his role in founding Bellingcat and the organisation's...
February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024. Higgins, Eliot (28 February 2024). "EliotHiggins (@EliotHiggins): Somewhat bizarrely his happened after Bellingcat's...
actual photograph. It went viral on social media platforms. Journalist EliotHiggins' Midjourney-generated image depicts former President Donald Trump getting...
Bellingcat founder EliotHiggins facetiously created an AI-generated image of Trump being arrested using Midjourney software. Higgins was clear that the...
government sources. In particular, Bellingcat journalist and founder EliotHiggins noted that both the Russian media outlet TV Zvezda and the secretary...
military expert. Extensive and clear footage unearthed by Higgins suggests otherwise. EliotHiggins (27 October 2012). "Clear Evidence Of DIY Barrel Bombs...
Ukrainian airliner. He would not elaborate further on the intelligence. EliotHiggins of Bellingcat tweeted photographs of a Tor nose section with its distinctive...
images, created using Midjourney, were initially posted on Twitter by EliotHiggins but were later re-shared without context, leading some viewers to believe...
list includes Adrian Chen, the Armenian journalist Maria Titizian, EliotHiggins at Bellingcat, Ellen Barry and at least 50 other New York Times reporters...
"The last time El Chapo was captured". The New Yorker. ——————— Notes EliotHiggins. Online version is titled "The family that built an empire of pain"...
Prize. Rachman ghost-wrote the nonfiction book, We Are Bellingcat, with EliotHiggins, founder of the online-investigative collective known for exposing Russian-state...
the end of 2012. As Human Rights Watch reported on 13 October 2012, "EliotHiggins, who blogs on military hardware and tactics used in Syria under the...
at Ghouta, but did not assign responsibility for the attack. Blogger EliotHiggins and chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta disputed some of the claims...
the Pope is the sovereign of Vatican City. While some users, such as EliotHiggins of Bellingcat appear to have been given verification for free, others...
takes place in the videos, both of them are staged." British analyst EliotHiggins (Brown Moses) published photographic and video forensic evidence suggesting...
Ungewisse (about Syria) (2014) Schuldig im Namen der Asyl-Industrie (2016) EliotHiggins Political prisoners in Venezuela "About Billy Six". YouTube. "Journalist...
council, but noted that Musk had supreme authority on any decisions made. EliotHiggins of Bellingcat believed that Musk's attempts to promote free speech would...
the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the Bellingcat website of EliotHiggins gave evidence about the manipulation of satellite images released by...
the Kremlin with pro-Putin and pro-war comments. In February 2022, EliotHiggins of Bellingcat judged that the quality of Russian misinformation videos...
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