Click detectives: the story behind the open source sleuth site Bellingcat | The Spinoff

'The whole point of everything I’m doing is that you can still find out what the truth really is.'

Share Story × Share Story Facebook Twitter Bluesky Reddit Email Linkedin Whatsapp Messenger Eliot Higgins at a press conference on Bellingcat’s coverage of the MH17 flight downing. Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images From Syria to Russia, online investigations at Bellingcat have trailblazed a new kind of journalism. Danyl Mclauchlan speaks to Eliot Higgins, the site founder and author of We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People, ahead of his sold-out appearance at the Word Christchurch Festival. E liot Higgins was working as an office worker for a lingerie retailer when he first

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