Prospect: The world’s top 50 thinkers 2019 - surprise entry! (h/t M/L)Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on September 3, 2019, 6:23 pm
Eliot Higgins
Technology has its downsides—but Higgins’s work proves there are also positives. The founder of Bellingcat, an investigative website that developed methods for ingenuously piecing together information gleaned from across the internet, has broken a series of vital stories about the wars in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine. His most high-profile work deployed these techniques to reveal the identity of Skripal poisoning suspects. Higgins believes in the open internet, especially the good it can do in closed societies—and delivers training programmes to other researchers, journalists and investigators around the world.