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Eliot Higgins

Founder, Bellingcat · Person

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Eliot Higgins - Founder, Bellingcat. Tracked across 30 mentions in podcasts and expert conversations analyzed by Sonic.

What Eliot Higgins has said

Eliot Higgins cannot currently travel to the United States due to concerns he might be targeted by US authorities because of Bellingcat's inclusion in the "censorship-industrial complex" conspiracy theory.

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Eliot Higgins used the AI model Claude to write a Python script that successfully scraped documents from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons website.

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Russia is currently conducting a disinformation campaign known as the "Russian doll" campaign, which creates fake news videos of outlets and individuals, including a 3D avatar of Eliot Higgins.

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Eliot Higgins cannot currently travel to the United States due to concerns he might be targeted by US authorities because of Bellingcat's inclusion in the "censorship-industrial complex" conspiracy th...

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Eliot Higgins used the AI model Claude to write a Python script that successfully scraped documents from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons website.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Russia is currently conducting a disinformation campaign known as the "Russian doll" campaign, which creates fake news videos of outlets and individuals, including a 3D avatar of Eliot Higgins.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

The existence of AI-generated content provides a "permission structure" for people to dismiss authentic images and videos they disagree with by simply claiming they are fake.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have business models that algorithmically reward user engagement more than factual accuracy.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

The Russian government passed a law banning soldiers from posting on social media, partly in response to Bellingcat's use of such posts to investigate the downing of MH17.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

AI models have shown mixed results when used for geolocation tasks, but they can assist by identifying subtle contextual clues like specific types of flora.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

In response to questions about a missile strike near a school in Iran, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Iran also possesses Tomahawk missiles.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Recent USAID funding cuts have eliminated 25% to 40% of the global funding for non-governmental investigative journalism organizations.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Most Russian government data, including passport registrations and vehicle records, is available for purchase on a gray market due to widespread corruption.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Elon Musk has referred to the "censorship-industrial complex" theory, which involves Bellingcat, as a "psyop".

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Bellingcat discovered the Russian Ministry of Defence's phone number stamped on the passport registration forms of the Skripal poisoning suspects.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

USAID funding cuts have caused many small, high-quality investigative journalism NGOs in the Global South to shut down overnight.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Bellingcat identified a network of Russian chemical weapons scientists and, by purchasing their phone records, observed them communicating with FSB agents immediately before the poisoning of Alexei Na...

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Russia's current disinformation operations are a continuation of the Internet Research Agency's work, are now run by a different oligarch, and employ hundreds of people.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

A recent large-scale Russian disinformation campaign about Armenian politics failed to gain traction because English-speaking social media users were not interested in the topic.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Bellingcat discovered multiple previously unreported assassinations carried out with chemical weapons by Russian agents.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Six Bulgarian nationals were jailed for spying on a Bellingcat colleague for two years in an operation linked to the Russian FSB.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

The conflict in Gaza has generated a significant amount of false information on platforms like X, driven by users seeking to monetize engagement.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

Bellingcat's investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 identified the origin of the missile launcher and its launch location.

Expert perspectiveEliot HigginsJul 15

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