Eliot Higgins
Founder and creative director of @Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Tonal Whiplash Zone.
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𧡠Important investigation by @mariannaspring on how social media algorithms push harmful content to young users. This connects closely to my research on online radicalisation. Let...
This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @chris...
To build on this, my personal belief is most counter-disinformation work fails to address the fundamental issues that lead to the creation of disinformation, and generally misunder...
Lots of images of abandoned Russian equipment and ammo in recently recaptured territory. I doubt the retreating Russian forces will be an effective fighting force for quite a while...
π§΅Meet Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, widow, jeweller, and socialite. The love child of a German father and a Peruvian mother, born in Callao, Peru, and abandoned in Moscow by her mot...
Because I'm a massive verification nerd who hates fun, here's a little thread on geolocating these photos that people are claiming aren't from Venice. https://t.co/qBreekKI7c