We Are Bellingcat

An Intelligence Agency for the People

By: Eliot Higgins

Narrated by: Eliot Higgins

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Bloomsbury presents We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins, read by Eliot Higgins.

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?

Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.

From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat’s most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken.

In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the people.

This audiobook contains several highly offensive terms, quoted from the manifesto of a third party. This in no way reflects the views of the author, the publisher or anyone associated with the publication and distribution of this book.

©2021 Eliot Higgins (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critic reviews

"Tells the story of the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism in the world." (Anne Applebaum)

"It is impossible to exaggerate the urgency and power of Bellingcat's work." (James O'Brien)

"The gripping story of how Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat exposed some of the gravest state crimes of our era." (Bill Browder, best-selling author of Red Notice)

Fascinating

An intriguing account of how ordinary people, using tools available on the internet, can help to solve problems from crimes against humanity to local environmental issues

Gripping read on online investigative journalism

To all my fellow journalists, editors and media managers out there: this is a must-read look into the future of investigative journalism.

Critical stuff to survive in a digital age

Absolutely gripping book - a new essential profession has emerged to survive in an increasingly complex digital world. Critical truth finding to counter balance an avalanche of mis-information and digital manipulation. Parts of this book should become basic topics in schools to prep a generation with essential digital survival skills.