A key part of the Bellingcat schtick is telling you how they did it. You might think larger news organisations would take a pointer or two, but they don’t, and that’s tremendously interesting if you ask me.
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Every interview with Elliot Higgins, he’s at pains to say there’s nothing much to it: you’re just comparing the public record with what you’re able to independently verify, and sometimes you have to find novel forms of verification.
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Hard to replicate it without the Atlantic Council backing you up
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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You wouldn’t have thought it was even that difficult. Funny, isn’t it?
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I have major reservations about Bellingcat, whose funding is opaque to say the least, and whose explanations of their own methods very often don’t stack up. But if you take them at their word — why isn’t everyone doing this?
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Good points. And the answer, of course, is that Bellingcat are a conduit for MI6, CIA disinformation. It is presented as fact by the media, and when it's all revealed to be false, in 10 years time, they can blame Bellingcat and stay clean themselves.
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It's also interesting that the kind of people standing behind Bellingcat have realised that well-produced documentaries are a good way of manipulating people. And people are not suspicious enough of this media - we presume it is all true. Especially when they win oscars/BAFTAs
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That’s just wrong - see, for example, the BBC’s Anatomy of a Killing investigation in Cameroon, which is referenced in the article
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it's crazy to me that Elliot Higgins is yet another high profile Something Awful alumni (along with one of the dudes killed in the Benghazi attack), who moderated the politics subforum and was renowned for two things:
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- being an incredibly boring personality-vacuum and doing nothing but copying & pasting guardian liveblog posts into threads - defending having the username BrownMoses despite being an incredibly white englishman
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