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Many people have made comparisons between Wikileaks and Bellingcat in the last couple of days, but it's like comparing apples and oranges. Wikileaks elicits and publishes leaked materials, we analyze open source materials and, in very rare cases, leaked data.
The clearest case of this can be seen in a story on our October 2018 story "305 Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach". We found this data in pre-published leaked materials, but purposefully chose to not doxx these GRU agents.https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrations-may-point-massive-gru-security-breach/ …
We could have easily published all of the available personal information about these 305 GRU officers, but chose not to because it would just be doxxing for the sake of it. Despite what some think, we are not an extension of any security service.
We go out of our way to conceal sensitive personal data on our research subjects. Look no further than our 115-page report on Russia's 53rd Brigade, where we hid the identities of all of our research subjects except those who already have a public profile. https://www.bellingcat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/53rd-report-public.pdf …
Our most well-known reports revealing the identities of individuals were done with very specific goals in mind regarding the public interest. We put a spotlight on the Skripal poisoners and MH17 suspects from the GRU because we were following a story, not to just target Russia.
Another example is this article finding information about one of the most wanted men in the Netherlands. This used entirely open sources -- the guy's own Instagram account -- and we had internal debate if this target was worth writing about (he was).https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/03/19/locating-the-netherlands-most-wanted-criminal-by-scrutinising-instagram/ …
We do not hack information, and we do not ask others to. In the extremely rare cases we have published non-open source information, such as passport data, it's been from pre-leaked databases or from people sending us information as whistleblowers, not via our instructions.
We find, verify and analyze open source information, and in extremely rare cases (fewer than 1% of our articles), work with leaked information that's hard to come across, but still technically publicly available. We don't solicit or cause these leaks or hacks. Apples and oranges.
LOL FFS Eliot please bellingcat does not belong in the same paragraph as wikileaks, you and bellingcat will never, NEVER reach such honorable heights, sit the fuck down!
I can definitely say we'll never help Donald Trump win an election, so that's accurate.
What is truth got to do with Donald Trump winning an election?
You're living up to your Twitter handle.
You're living up to your conspiracy theories! FACE the TRUTH, your either a defender of TRUTH or you're a shill for corruption!
Your problem is you don't like the truths we publish.
I have tried to, but EVERYTIME bellingcat comes down on the side of western imperialist warmongering policies, why is this? why do you support, prop up and cheer on American wars? when they're the sole reason there are wars?! WHY?
We don't, you're just projecting your own world view onto your limited understanding of our work, and drawing faulty conclusions about our motivation.
I agree. Wikileaks exposes the actions of the big powers, including US massacres in Iraq. You just focus obsessively on Russia.
We're about to launch a major project examining dozens of Saudi coalition airstrikes in Yemen, so your statement is clearly false. You should probably question why you've come to that false believe, maybe check the sources you've used to come to that conclusion.
Good to see even if a bit late. It'll also help the case you're not a sap for the British State/NATO.
Two years ago we were writing about the US bombing a mosque full of civilians in Syria, so despite what you might have read, we do look into this stuff. Unfortunately that doesn't fit with some people's narratives about Bellingcat, so they ignore it.https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/04/18/al-jinah-new-info-and-timeline/ …
Bellingcat is a government paid propaganda outlet to spread lies and deception of the UK security agencies.
We're not, stop reading conspiracy websites.
Eliots first post top left "Stop reading conspiracy websites" when trying to smear the poster for pointing out Eliot in funded by NED. Eliot denies it. Only later Eliot is forced to admit he was indeed NED funded and still is. Eliot uses the term conspiracy to deflect the truth.pic.twitter.com/rfTQjDJVKw
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