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British citizen journalist and former blogger

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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.

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We're sitting on the precipice of the misinformation age: from the information age to the misinformation age.

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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.

From an interview, as cited in "Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: 'We're on the precipice of the misinformation age'", Financial Times (29

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The most dangerous force may not be the lie - but the sustained systematic suggestion that the truth itself is unreachable.

From a post on Bluesky, as cited in "Timeline: How the Trump administration lost the narrative in Minnesota", The Washington Post (28

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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.

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Born 1979 · age 47
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