About Eliot Higgins
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. A 2015 Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award (Sonderpreis) for excellence in journalism was awarded to Higgins and bellingcat. Inactive since July 2014 Bellingcat, citizen investigative journalism website, founded by Higgins. I had no knowledge beyond what I'd learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo." Higgins began reporting on the use of improvised barrel bombs by the Syrian government in 2012, around the time their use was first reported.
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