Eliot Higgins

Eliot Ward Higgins (born January 1979), who previously wrote under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and former blogger, known for using open sources and social media for investigations. He is the founder of Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence. He has investigated incidents including the Syrian Civil War, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict.

Quotes

• We're sitting on the precipice of the misinformation age: from the information age to the misinformation age.
• [In footage from the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Higgins eventually noticed a man pulling a police officer to the ground to be beaten] It was virtually invisible until you realised what was happening, because it was partly covered by people's arms and legs
• In the past we were looking at radicalisation of people who joined Isis. It's the same kind of process that's happened with these Trump supporters. Instead of worshipping Allah, they're worshipping Trump.
  • From an interview, as cited in "Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: 'We're on the precipice of the misinformation age'", Financial Times (29 January 2021)