Author: Eliot Higgins

Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative journalism group that specialises in open-source intelligence and fact-checking.

30 June 2025

Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown ‘Radically Understates’ the Scale of the Threat

Entire communities are now becoming locked into dangerous belief systems that are almost impossible to challenge, argues Eliot Higgins

Disinformation, Freedom of Speech