We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

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  • Create Date:2022-03-14 08:51:53
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Eliot Higgins
  • ISBN:1526615711
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Summary

'John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times

'Uplifting 。 。 。 Riveting 。 。 。 What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs 。 。 。 Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit' Telegraph

'We Are Bellingcat is Higgins's gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age 。 。 。 A manifesto for optimism in a dark age' Luke Harding, Observer

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?

Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future。 Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers。

From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most successful investigations。 It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken。

In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the people。

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Reviews

Vasile Decu

It was and is (as it has a strong, ‘evergreen’ story) one of the most important titles in those “Best-Of 2021” lists, for everyone interested in media and world affairs。 It’s an excellent biography, start-up story, and ‘manual’ for media literacy and open-source investigations。 And also a great read, like a nonfiction version of some of the best spy/intelligence novels out there。 But real :)A few months ago, I had a very long, but highly interesting talk with Eliot Higgins, founder of the Bellin It was and is (as it has a strong, ‘evergreen’ story) one of the most important titles in those “Best-Of 2021” lists, for everyone interested in media and world affairs。 It’s an excellent biography, start-up story, and ‘manual’ for media literacy and open-source investigations。 And also a great read, like a nonfiction version of some of the best spy/intelligence novels out there。 But real :)A few months ago, I had a very long, but highly interesting talk with Eliot Higgins, founder of the Bellingcat investigative project, about his book, his work, the importance of media literacy, the power of an audience, and our responsibility to fight for truth even on social media, the very loud first draft of history, acting as communicational 'white blood cells'。 With a surprising level of optimism and even a few solutions。 > https://scienceborglibrarian。substack。。。 。。。more

Nura Melissa

It’s heartening to know that truth can still be detected。