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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social
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Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 52m
I've seen better posture in Silent Hill.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1h
Here's the full story that the Tony Blair Institute doesn't want to answer questions about, on Democracy for Sale
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Tony’s minor tantrum: how Blair’s institute responded to fresh “cash for access” questions
We asked TBI about allegations of £500,000 corporate memberships and a logo that vanished at Labour conference. They said they’re not talking to us anymore
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1h
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 3h
A badge with Brandy's full name appeared at the very end of the sequence. This puzzle was first flagged to us on Sep 21 by @UShadrons.bsky.social.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 3h
The Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network is still trolling @BrandyZadrozny.bsky.social after her report for MS NOW exposing a 🪆 campaign targeting the US midterms. Matryoshka posted this picture piece-by-piece daily, and @GnidaProject.bsky.social solved it using our 🪆 dataset.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h
Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h
AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22h
1/ Another AI-generated video falsely depicting Russian 'control' north of Lyman has been publicised by disgusted Russian warbloggers. It's part of a "plague" of AI "neurocontrol" that prominent warblogger Rybar condemns as "inept, half-baked information warfare". ⬇️
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22h
UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe reut.rs/3U03EPo
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UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe
Britain's counter-terrorism police said on ​Tuesday that no improvised explosive ‌devices had been found as part of an investigation into a suspected plot targeting a British ​airbase used by US forces ​to strike Iran.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23h
And the allegation here was that Smith made a shady trip to Atlanta, where he... got first row seats to an NBA game, I assume so that people wouldn't see he was there.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23h
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 23h
Winning designers will receive a product of their choice for free. Want to know more about the contest and our guidelines? Find all the details here: www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Bellingcat Official Merch Design Contest - bellingcat
Bellingcat is finally launching an official merch line! That’s right: after years of fantasizing and wishing, we’re finally ready to get our name and logo on cool merch that you’ll be able to show off...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 23h
It's the final week to help shape our next community-curated merch. Got a design idea? Send it our way. Not an artist? No problem. We’re also looking for tagline ideas for T-shirts, bags and hats. What makes you think of Bellingcat? Tell us by Friday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Various bellingcat merch design mockups. Reads: We Want You To Design Our Merch
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 29/09/2026
Can you work out where a photo was taken — and when? Learn methods for geolocation, satellite imagery analysis and chronolocation techniques with Bellingcat experts. 14–16 October 2026. Find the webinar details here: www.bellingcat.com/workshops/in...
Learn our methods... Uncover the █████.Learn to use shadows and background details to date, time and locate a photograph
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We deserve to be told the truth..."
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Shellenberger remains obsessed with me but doesn’t want to say my name when he writes made up shit like this lol why is that
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, hexamine, my old friend. www.opcw.org/sites/defaul...
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FORZA ELENA GUNCHEVA @elenaultras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spent 5 hours today in a Bellingcat workshop. Big thanks to @msramalho.bsky.social for the session, learned a lot and found it genuinely useful.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28/09/2026
How is AI changing investigations? On Thursday, investigative journalist @craigsilverman.bsky.social will share how he’s using AI, including in his investigation of a North Korean hiring scam. We’ll explore what AI can uncover and where it falls short. Join us live: discordapp.com/events/70975...
Reads: Using AI in Investigations-
To Uncover a North Korean Hiring Scam with Craig Silverman, 
Bellingcat Stage Talk
Thursday 10/1
5pm CEST/11am EDT
Discord.com/invite/bellingcat
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign has shifted to the US elections, where it's making wild claims about random Democratic Party candidates. They've also started one of their jigsaws again, which is nearly complete. Not sure if it's a specific person, but at least my face isn't on the poo.
The image is a crude satirical illustration set against broad red and cream stripes that run down the background and continue across the floor.
On the left stands a shaggy grey donkey, facing the viewer, with large upright ears, a pale muzzle and several white stars across its chest.
On the right is a blonde woman wearing black glasses, a blue dress with puffed sleeves, a white apron and black high heels. She leans forward with one hand on her hip and holds an oversized wooden spoon in the other. The spoon is coated in a brown substance, which also appears smeared around her smiling mouth and chin.
A large pile of faeces sits between them in the foreground, surrounded by flies and rising green and yellow stink lines.
Three horizontal black bands mark missing sections of the reconstructed image: one across the upper ears and hair, a wider band across the donkey’s muzzle and the woman’s waist, and a narrow band near the bottom.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.
AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starting now!
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28/09/2026
Thank you to every individual and organisation who attended and supported this event. Bellingcat has been thinking about ways to maintain information integrity in an increasingly confusing online environment. You can support this work at bellingcat.com/donate
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The truth belongs to everyone. Help us find it. - Donate to bellingcat
Every membership directly supports our investigations and global community work.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 28/09/2026
What does a resilient information society look like? Last week we ran the 'TRUST conference with the European Trust Alliance. Working with technologists, legal scholars, civil society advocates and journalists we discussed the complex challenges facing European digital autonomy.
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International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy @isacworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starting soon: Disinformation & Infectious Diseases 🗓️ 28 Sept Disinformation spreads faster than pathogens. Hear experts from @Bellingcat & Cambridge’s Influence Technology Lab unpack how false narratives form &influence public behaviour 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/f4udj36t @heiman-wertheim.bsky.social
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026
Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We’re now not just recipients of information but distributors and creators of it. That’s a fundamental shift. If you have a mobile phone, you’re part of the process."
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Everyone, because the role of verification used to be something the public trusted institutions to do on their behalf. As that trust has been lost, it has fallen into the lap of the public."
forbes.com
Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Q&A I did recently with Ashoka and Forbes - Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka...
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Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
... evaluation through a note verbale (dated 17 July 2026). The Secretariat is working closely with the Syrian Arab Republic on follow-up activities related to this newly declared facility. [...]
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
... chemical weapons storage facilities (CWSFs), the Al-Qutayfah CWSF and the Homs CWSF, where the newly discovered materials have been stored while awaiting destruction. The Secretariat analysed the above amendments and shared its ...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
... [...] 6. The Syrian Arab Republic declared one additional chemical weapons production facility (CWPF), a newly discovered chemical (hexamine) used in the production of nerve agent, and Category 3 chemical weapons. The Syrian Arab Republic also declared two ...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Disarmament #OPCW REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: PROGRESS IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE SYRIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAMME www.opcw.org/sites/defaul... Note: Conspiracy theorists have always challenged the #hexamine used to manufacture Syria's sarin. Not anymore ... ...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best, uhh, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/09/2026
🚢 Iran stood firm Sunday on its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump's rejection of the proposal that had created some optimism for breaking the Mideast war stalemate. ➡️ u.afp.com/S9Yp
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Counter-terror police lead investigation into major incident near RAF base, officials say www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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RAF Fairford: Men held in major incident near air base as homes evacuated
Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act. The US Air Force say they "remain vigilant" to ensure safety of services members at the RAF base.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This company just radiates predator energy
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A four-wave study in Sweden found that conspiracy thinking, use of right-wing alternative media, and social media reinforce each other over time. In contrast, mainstream news use was associated with lower levels of conspiracy thinking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Breeding conspiracy thinking? Investigating the longitudinal relationship between media use and conspiracy mindset
Over the last decade, conspiracy theories and beliefs in them have become a more pressing social and political problem. Despite different media being the main channels through which conspiracy theo...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 26/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Robert Kraft’s Gillette stadium canceled hours before showtime
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Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Robert Kraft’s Gillette stadium canceled
The shows were scheduled for Friday and Saturday evening following major controversy surrounding Sheeran’s tour
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