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We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

London et al.: Bloomsbury, updated ed. (2022), 277 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 243-266, index

ISBN 978-1-5266-1571-8 (pbk); 978-1-5266-4506-7 (online)

"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." (Publisher description)
1 Revolution on a Laptop, 9
2 Becoming Bellingcat, 63
3 Firewall of Facts, 111
4 Mice Catch Cat, 155
5 Next Steps, 193