We Are Bellingcat

“We Are Bellingcat” is one of the most remarkable tales I’ve ever read. Authored by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, the book retraces his steps to creating the world’s first online open-source investigatory effort. He heralds the future of news, one that calls upon citizen jouranlism to scour the internet for facts, to test the facts and ensure their veracity, all the while throwing powerful governments and actors into chaos.

He explains how he came to create this type of journalism, how Bellingcat waded through its most important investigations–the terrible crash of flight MH17 over Ukraine, the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and the identities of white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville–all with the gripping pace of a thriller. Ultimately, Bellingcat brings the future of news to what it should have been all along: facts. That is, amidst the swamp of misinformation, where are the facts, and what are the tools we can use to find them, and how do we present them to the world?