Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with ELIOT HIGGINS

BELLINGCAT: HOW TO FIND REAL FACTS IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD

Zoom talk and presentation of the book “We are Bellingcat”, in German “Digitale Jäger”

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog. During the Arab Spring the English online researcher started to locate atrocities in Libya and Syria during his free time. He focused on the weapons used in the conflict with open source investigation tools and techniques. His blog has morphed into one of the most important tools of holding regimes to account. President Assad in Syria lied about not using chemical weapons against his civilian population – Bellingcat proved him wrong. Bellingcat also exposed the truth behind the downing of flight MH17 in Ukraine. Higgins and his growing team of experts investigated the poisoning of Sergej Skripal and of Alexej Navalny. These “Digitale Jäger”, so the German title of the book, try to find the real facts in an increasingly fake news world. With success.

Eliot Higgins, Author, Founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog

Moderation:

Tessa Szyszkowitz, Historian, Journalist and Author; UK-Correspondent for PROFIL, Falter und Cicero. She is also Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute in London.