# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eliot-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:25.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eliot-higgins"
name: "Eliot Higgins"
slug: "eliot-higgins"
description: "Eliot Ward Higgins, 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."
tagline: "British citizen journalist and former blogger"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis-2015_Eliot_Higgins_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1979-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 219
totalFollowers: 1630
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump