The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding the power of the internet to fight for facts.
In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. We Are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists--working together from their computer screens around the globe--to crack major cases, at a time when fact-based journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces. Founder Eliot Higgins introduces readers to the tools Bellingcat investigators use, tools available to anyone, from software that helps you pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time that photo was taken. This book digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most important investigations--the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, the identities of alt-right protestors in Charlottesville--with the drama and gripping detail of a spy novel.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1635577306
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.0 x 9.6 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
"John le Carré demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself." --Financial Times "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 "A fascinating book . . . The lesson of this deeply impressive book is that, despite the noise, the propaganda and the lies, the truth is everywhere. You just have to know how to look for it." --Spectator "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 "Higgins's self-taught skills are impressive . . . fans of Bellingcat and advocates of citizen journalism will be fascinated by the behind-the-scenes details." --Publishers Weekly "A lively account . . . there is an awful lot to be on guard against in cyberspace but also a willing and utterly capable army of defenders against those who would disinform, misinform, and outright lie for political advantage. Those who are not allergic to facts will find this a provocative, even inspirational read." --Kirkus Reviews "Recent [open-source] journalism achievements--such as Bellingcat's investigations . . . are compelling not just for their findings, but for the openness with which they explain the process of discovery. This is the closest that journalism has come to a scientific method." --TheNew York Review of Books "Taking on the Kremlin from his couch . . . Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat are fighting Vladimir Putin and his ilk, using little more than computers and smartphones." --Foreign Policy
Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe some of the world's most pressing stories. Higgins also sits on the technical advisory board of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In 2018 he was a visiting research associate at King's College London and at the University of California, Berkeley.@EliotHiggins
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