Eliot Higgins
British citizen journalist and former blogger · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Born 1979 · age 47
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.
Eliot Higgins is read about 72 times a day, in 17 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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![Eliot Higgins and Alina Polyakova,[28] presenting "Hiding in Plain Sight"; Andrij Melnyk,[29] Berlin, 2015[30][31][32][33][34][35]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Eliot_Higgins%2C_Alina_Polyakova_%2819310258089%29.jpg/1280px-Eliot_Higgins%2C_Alina_Polyakova_%2819310258089%29.jpg)
In their own words 3
, We're sitting on the precipice of the misinformation age: from the information age to the misinformation age.
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.
The most dangerous force may not be the lie - but the sustained systematic suggestion that the truth itself is unreachable.
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About this person
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.
