_____________<\/b>THE SUNDAY TIMES <\/i>BESTSELLER<\/b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION <\/b>_____________<\/b>‘John le Carr\u00c3\u00a9 demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself’ <\/b>– Financial Times<\/i>‘Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit’ <\/b>– Telegraph<\/i>‘We Are Bellingcat <\/i>is Higgins’s gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age . . . A manifesto for optimism in a dark age’ <\/b>– Luke Harding, Observer<\/i>_____________<\/b>How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time?<\/i><\/b>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 <\/i>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.In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now – an intelligence agency by the people, for the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the Russian suspects in the Salisbury poisoning appeared on television, it took just under two weeks for the real identity of one of them to be revealed. This huge investigative coup wasn’t pulled off by an intelligence organisation or a traditional news outlet. Instead it was made by Bellingcat, the open-source investigative unit that is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. ‘We Are Bellingcat’ tells the story of how a school dropout created a whole new category of information-gathering and galvanised citizen journalists to solve some of the biggest stories of our time, using just their computer screens. It charts the tools that have developed for analysing data since the 1990s, from geo-location software that can pinpoint a precise place, to an app that can identify to the half hour the time of day when a photograph was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[142],"product_tag":[833,3361,413,143],"class_list":["post-95021","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-non-fiction","product_tag-espionage-secret-services","product_tag-law-citizenship-rights-for-the-lay-person","product_tag-press-journalism","product_tag-true-crime","pa_book_author-higgins-eliot","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-070-43-edition23","pa_imprint-bloomsbury","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8712","pa_publisher-bloomsbury","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n