Wednesday 18 September 2024, 11am-12noon (BST)
Eliot Higgins is the Founder and Creative Director of Bellingcat, the renowned and hugely respected open-source fact-checking intelligence platform. Over the past 10 years, he and his independent group of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists painstakingly pull together a plethora of publicly available threads of information to probe topics of public interest.
His high-profile and revealing investigations have covered the Syrian civil war, the downing of Malaysia Flight 17, the Salisbury poisonings, the current unrest in the Middle East, and the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war, to name but a few. Today, Bellingcat reports are used by governments, media outlets and agencies across the world to better understand world affairs and to highlight underreported stories.
Eliot’s current focus is the proliferation of mis- and dis-information especially online, why it spreads and is believed so easily, and how to counter it with better education at grass-roots levels. He has been widely and internationally recognised for his work, including:
- The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award for excellence in journalism
- Named a Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine
- Named a top ‘disruptor’ in Europe
- Awarded a Swedish-based prize for freedom of speech
- Awarded the Treaties of Nijmegen Medal for his innovative contribution to peace and human rights
We were truly honoured to welcome such an innovative OSINT journalist to the SASIG stage. This latest instalment of our chief’s brief series gave us a privileged insight into his career and experiences, and allowed us to learn more about his work and his methods. This is a webinar that couldn’t be missed, so watch the recording.
Martin Smith MBE (info), Chairman & Founder, The SASIG, in conversation with Eliot Higgins, Founder and Creative Director, Bellingcat
