Eliot Higgins
@EliotHiggins
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Founder and creative director of @Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Tonal Whiplash Zone.
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Our long form documentary with
@scrippsnews
tracking the destruction being wrought across Gaza, using on the ground reporting and open source investigation to identify the scale of destruction and the perpetrators.
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"Russia is behind the killing of George Floyd to provoke protests and riots" has to be one of the dumbest takes on the current situation in the US.
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Ever wonder how Russian cruise missiles find their way into Ukrainian playgrounds, power stations, and apartment buildings? Well thanks to
@bellingcat
’s
@christogrozev
wonder no more. It’s time to meet the team behind the targeting of Russian missiles on civilian infrastructure.
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"Let me win or I'll nuke you" isn't exactly a position of strength.
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Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump's arrest.
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🧵Meet Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, widow, jeweller, and socialite. The love child of a German father and a Peruvian mother, born in Callao, Peru, and abandoned in Moscow by her mother during the 1980 Olympic Games.
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With $TSLA already down 3% in pre-market trading, let's see what the CEO is up to:
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This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services.
@christogrozev
did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow.
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Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports.
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To be honest, Twitter, I think we'd all just be cool with you banning the account:
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The Community Notes on Musk's original tweet and the reply have both now been removed. Says everything about Musk and this platform.
Someone's starting to regret having community notes.
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Latest update from the lettuce, disco lights have been deployed.
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The account that posted Elon Musk getting booed at Dave Chapelle's show was just deleted, for some reason. Here's the video in question
@SoozUK
@CleoPat48937885
Piggy-backing off of this because it's the topic comment...
Uhh, did
@CleoPat48937885
's account just disappear for everyone else? Like, within the last 5 minutes since I clicked on this?
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Pro-Russian accounts are currently sharing a video (left) that has a big ol' pile of cocaine digitally added to smear Zelensky. The original video (right), sans cocaine, can be found here
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Nothing says more about the crass brutality of Putin's war in Ukraine than this satellite image of the bombed remains of Mariupol Drama Theatre. Shelter for victims of his war, "CHILDREN" written outside so clearly that it's visible from space, and still it was bombed.
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The right has spent that last 48 hours attacking
@Bellingcat
for saying the Allen mall shooter had neo-Nazi tattoos. Here's what the Allen police said
"We do know that he had Neo-Nazi ideation. He had patches, he had tattoos, even his signature verified that."
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Sam Smith looks like he's about to get shot down by a F-22.
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Pro-Russian mapmakers tracking the fighting around Kharkiv are showing a really significant problem for Russia unfolding rapidly.
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Always nice to see a new wave of people discovering Roger Waters is a terrible person.
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Scourge of the Russian intelligence services, Christo Grozev, has spent the last several months piecing together the team responsible for programming Russian cruise missiles launched at targets in Ukraine, frequently hitting civilian infrastructure.
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Osama Bin Laden becoming Gen Z's Noam Chomsky wasn't something I saw coming.
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The owner of Twitter called Bellingcat a psy-op because it reported accurate information about a mass shooter.
Twitter is on a mission to become the world’s most accurate real-time information source and a global town square for communication. That's not an empty promise.
That’s OUR reality.
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Pretty incredible Zelensky can leave his hand on Rishi Sunak's shoulder while also taking a photo of him from the across the room.
A picture worth a thousand words:
"There is no God", says the tattoo.
And indeed, for the unholy Kiev regime, neo-Nazis & their warmongering Western sponsors, nothing is sacred.
Hence, the PR stunts on the bones, persecution of Orthodox Christians & murders of journalists, etc
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Russia's response to the attack on the Kerch bridge is to target civilians during the rush hour in Kyiv. Terrorising civilians far away from any front line is a desperate act, another sign of their inability to achieve a military victory in the field.
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Journalists - Next time Elon Musk falsely accuses Bellingcat of being a psy op on your TV show maybe push back a little and ask why he thinks that?
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The truly tragic thing about this is Twitter was probably a key element of the development of online open source investigation and Bellingcat over the last decade, having a huge impact on multiple fields of work, and this is what we get.
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Someone's starting to regret having community notes.
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Elon "Graphic Design Is My Passion" Musk's logo for "X" is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).
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Bellingcat ruining Russia's day again in about 30 minutes.
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Running out of vehicles, running out of ammo, running out of fuel, running out of soldiers, and even running out of bridges. Vladimir Putin, master strategist.
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Anyone treating the Discord Leaker like a whistleblower is either ignorant of the facts or just thinks anyone leaking documents is a whistleblower, even if it's to their gamer pals for internet cool person points.
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I wish as many people gave a shit about this video when it was originally shared and it was about Syria.
This sobering video of a child, with 12,000 retweets, 21,000 likes and one million views, isn't from Gaza.
The video was filmed in 2014 in Aleppo, Syria, and shows the aftermath of bombing by Syrian government forces.
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Last night, we saw a totally false claim about Israel bombing a church in Gaza go viral, thanks to multiple blue tick accounts repeating an unverified claim that had no evidence to back it up. Musk has created a fundamental issue with Twitter's credibility in moments of crisis.
In the past couple of days, we’ve seen an increase in daily active users on
@X
in the conflict area, plus there have been more than 50 million posts globally focusing on the weekend’s terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas.
As the events continue to unfold rapidly, a cross-company…
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If Prigozhin is using Wagner to stage videos to undermine Shoigu then Putin really has lost control of the situation.
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The missile programmers are part of the Russian Armed Forces’ vast Main Computation Centre of the General Staff (GVC), and working with
@the_ins_ru
and
@derspiegel
we’ve identified the 33 military engineers involved with cruise missile attacks in Ukraine.
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Someone is off to the gulag:
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Avdiivka is a gift from the House Republicans to Putin.
Ukraine's retreat from Avdiivka, where troops said they were up against 7 Russian brigades, outnumbered 1 to 15. At Munich, Zelensky said troops were hamstrung by lack of weapons: “Our dear friends are ... keeping Ukraine in an artificial deficit"
Wounded now being treated:
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A fake BBC video claiming a Bellingcat investigation shows Ukraine smuggled weapons to Hamas is being pushed by Russian social media users. It's unclear if this is a Russian government disinformation campaign or a grassroots effort, but it's 100% fake
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Please read the tweet David Sacks is replying to so you can understand what an absolute feckless dupe he is.
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Heavy recorded the Twitter likes of alleged mass shooter Robert Card, from his now suspended Twitter account, which includes
@TuckerCarlson
@DonaldJTrumpJr
@DineshDSouza
@elonmusk
@SpeakerMcCarthy
@catturd2
@jordanbpeterson
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Elon Musk getting duped by conspiracy theorists, and he wants to "fix" Twitter.
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Getting kicked out a White House press briefing for turning on a camera is a way more interesting story than regurgitating Spicer's bullshit
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Seems like Elon Musk's brain worms really kicked into high gear overnight.
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At this rate Russian troops could be marching through Kyiv before the EU, UK and US has implemented any sanctions.
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I forgot my favourite part of the story, where she appears to have got her "exclusive" jewellery range from Ali Express vendors.
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Russia Today is beyond parody, how dare Ukraine threaten the soldiers invading its territory?!?
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Twitter dying would be a really big blow to the open source investigation community. It really enabled a lot of sharing of information and collaboration that led to real impact. Bellingcat wouldn't have been able to build an audience without it.
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I hope all the people whole denied Russian crimes in Bucha will watch this new video from PBS and AP and feel an appropriate level of shame, but some how I doubt they're capable of that.
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🧵 In June, The Netherlands announced it had detained a Russian spy, posing as a Brazilian just as he was about to start work for the ICC. Sent back to Brazil, he ended up sentenced to 15 years for using fraudulent documents. Russia now claims he's a drug dealer, not a spy...
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Yet again,
@mfa_russia
gets caught promoting fake videos from Ukraine, this time caught out by a geolocation that places the scene of the video in Russian territory.
@mfa_russia
deleted the tweet without acknowledging it was fake.
GeoConfirmed UKR.
"2 Ukrainians stopped a car and fires a gun to scare a women and child."
❌This is not Ukrainian military❌
This video is made 30 km's behind the frontline.
Russian disinformation, but geolocation by
@PStyle0ne1
is on point and GeoConfirmed.
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Someone just realised they're not going to be on TV as much.
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Countdown to Musk claiming Ukraine shot down MH17 and Douma was a false flag.
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If you want to see how Russia uses peace talks and ceasefires just look at Syria. They're only ever used to reorganise and prepare for the next offensive.
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The Dutch court at the
#MH17
trial is detailing why they believe the conflict in Ukraine was an international conflict because of Russia's involvement, which is a good reminder that Russia's invasion of Ukraine really started 8 years ago, not 8 months.
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Elon Musk's tweet falsely stating Bellingcat "literally specialises in psychological operations" in response to our work on this topic has now reached 3.2 million views, with no community notes visible correcting his false claim.
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Lots of images of abandoned Russian equipment and ammo in recently recaptured territory. I doubt the retreating Russian forces will be an effective fighting force for quite a while, which could be a major problem for Russia if their defences lack the depth they appear to.
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Classic saboteur checklist:
Explosives ✔️
Guns ✔️
Mein Kampf ✔️
Nazi Flag ✔️
The Sims Expansions ✔️✔️✔️
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Boston Dynamics introduces its latest future robot overlord
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Twitter support says "f** the jews" doesn't violate their policies, in case you were wondering.
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I dunno guys, I still think it's NATO pushing for war here.
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Currently we only have Musk's word he was followed from an airport.
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Every day of this conflict is a reminder that despite Russian disinformation being incredibly pathetic there's always going to be people dumb enough to fall for it or shameless enough to share it.
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And to be clear, I don't think Musk knows he's lying, or that he's a Russian op, I just think he's an idiot who consumes garbage media and incorrectly assumes that makes him smart and well-informed, just like thousands of other idiots on this website.
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Whatever happened to Navalny it was always Putin's intention that he should die, like all the other opposition figures Putin threw into prison after his goons failed to murder them. Let's not get distracted from that with a debate on exactly how he died, murder is the system.
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"Myrotvorets is a Ukrainian government kill list" is rapidly becoming the most effective way to identify the dumbest people in this website.
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If anyone has the exact coordinates of any mass graves I can check Planet hi-res imagery to see if there's any visible signs of ground disturbance to establish when they were dug.
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I know you all want Bellingcat to sue Musk, but I'd rather spend our money on publishing the sort of investigations that make people like him say dumb shit about Bellingcat, so please donate here if you want to see more of that
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It's Syria all over again, Russia bombing hospitals, killing civilians, let's make sure they don't get away with it this time.
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The direct commander of the missile pre-planners sub-unit appears to be Col. Igor Bagnyuk. This was established on the basis of the analysis of telephone data of eleven members of the group of engineers obtained from data sources on the Russian black data market.
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In fact, he barely connects the two events, because tracking a car is very different from tracking a plane.
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Prigozhin better not get himself killed, he owes me 70 grand.
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It's because he frequently denies well documented war crimes, Diane.
I was in the Commons for George Galloway's swearing in. He has just won a thumping parliamentary majority on the issue of Gaza. Two-thirds of the public support a genuine and immediate ceasefire.
Yet some want to shun him, and his voters, in the name of.....democracy. Bizarre.
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First unrectified images of Saki Air Base in Crimea via
@planet
following yesterday's multiple explosions. There's clearly been a massive fire across the base following whatever happened there:
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Kinda hoping Elon Musk does destroy Twitter so I can have my life back.
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Because I'm a massive verification nerd who hates fun, here's a little thread on geolocating these photos that people are claiming aren't from Venice.
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Some of the members of this unit also took part in planning cruise missile attacks on targets in Syria and/or worked at Russia's military command centre in Damascus. Some are also recipients of various military awards, including from Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
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Over the past week,
@LauraLoomer
has been flipping out about Kent McLellan, aka Boneface, a US neo-Nazi who claims to have fought in Ukraine. Now Bellingcat shows how court filings prove Boneface was making up those claims promoted by Loomer
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It's 5 years since the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, and, for Bellingcat, the first in a series of investigations that would eventually lead to uncovering more than a dozen assassination attempts by the Russian state. We started here:
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You know which tweets also don't load when you reach your limit?
Adverts.
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One hedgehog is more effective than the entire Russian army.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive has been slowed down by a stubborn hedgehog.
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You have to admire Glenn Greenwald's dedication to completely incinerating his reputation.
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Musk calling
@snopes
a psy-op now. Seems like his definition of a psy-op is someone who says something he doesn't like.
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I'd love to hear
@elonmusk
and
@ggreenwald
list some of the psy-ops Bellingcat has been involved with. Is it just the ones that make white supremacists look bad?
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People who say Bellingcat is run by Western intelligence services obviously don't appreciate how much admin work I have to do each day.
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Bellingcat's
@AricToler
uncovered the social media profile of the Texas mall shooter yesterday, revealing some pretty obvious clues that the shooter was far-right, leading to the worst people on this website losing their minds. Here's what Aric found.
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I genuinely believe this is a dumb FSB officer being told to get 3 SIMs.
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If you thought Putin was isolated and paranoid before this, just imagine what he'll be like afterwards.
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Comparison of August 9th and August 10th imagery show very large craters, many destroyed aircraft, and destroyed buildings. It looks like a direct hit on the building on the left, so whatever it was seems accurate.
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Is
@elonmusk
okay with state run Twitter accounts using anti-Semitic tropes? Maybe he can have a poll for this one too? See if his followers are cool with casual anti-Semitism.
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This is all a result of pathetic Western responses to the invasion of Crimea, Russia's occupation of Eastern Ukraine, the use of nerve agents on British soil, mass assassination programmes targeting individuals at home and abroad, and rampant kleptocracy and corruption.
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Now all these US right wingers and Elon Musk stans have discovered Bellingcat I get to see them citing the dumbest tankies and conspiracy theorists in an attempt to attack our credibility. Not as smart as you think it is, guys.
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It's amuses me to no end that we've now reached the point in tankiedom that Western tankies are in deeper denial about the Kharkiv offensive and the situation for Russian in Ukraine than literal Russian TV propagandists.
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One of the team members, Maj. Andrey Ivanyutin, can be seen in the background of this photograph of a meeting between President Putin and Syrian President Assad held in a secure Russian compound in Damascus in January 2021
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