This month marks 9 years of Bellingcat. Over the years the team has uncovered international crimes and built tools to empower others. We’ve seen the adoption of open-source research skill sets in major newsrooms around the world. Here are some of our team’s proudest moments… - ThreadSky

bellingcat.com • 590 days ago

This month marks 9 years of Bellingcat. Over the years the team has uncovered international crimes and built tools to empower others. We’ve seen the adoption of open-source research skill sets in major newsrooms around the world. Here are some of our team’s proudest moments…

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halpocalypse.bsky.social•590 days ago

Love your work. Thanks team.

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

Bellingcat began with the MH17 tragedy. This collective of open-source investigators found evidence that Russia provided the Buk missile launcher that shot down MH17 on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people. A podcast details the investigation: https://www.novel.audio/shows/the-bellingcat-podcast

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

Further investigations developed around Russian state actors. We worked to reveal those behind the poisonings of Alexey Navalny, Sergey Skripal and other critics of the Kremlin. https://www.bellingcat.com/category/news/?fwp_tags=gru

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

But open-source research isn’t always looking into war crimes and assassinations. One of founder Eliot Higgins' favourite investigations was a quick 24-hour effort to locate a dog snatcher.
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/eliot-higgins-bellingcat-interview

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

And sometimes, you can find information in unusual spaces. One of our most popular stories revealed that US servicemen in Europe had shared nuclear weapon secrets through publicly available flashcard apps.

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

We’ve used open-source research to help cover major news stories. In 2020, we revealed that the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, were complicit in maritime “pushback” operations against migrant boats in Greek waters.

bellingcat.com•590 days ago

When the George Floyd protests broke out in the US in 2020, our team mapped out instances of police violence from footage found on social media

pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social•493 days ago

The Maria Kuhfeldt Rivera unmasking was something else.... as was the slow burn in his telling of the tale ...

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