This is some of the funniest Bellingcat fan fiction I have ever read de.rt.com/meinung/110793…
Did you accidentally run his mother over in your car or something, @christogrozev?
@christogrozev is "the symbol for the decline of classic investigative journalism", according to this sane and balanced RT German article. I've been called many things, but never the destroyer of an entire field of journalism.
I hope one day to live long to annoy someone as deeply as @christogrozev has annoyed the author of that article.
Bellingcat's work has so impressed this author that he can only imagine it could have been done with the help of the "the world's largest surveillance machine" or "the largest foreign intelligence service in the United States", or both! No, we're just that amazing.

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21 Dec
BREAKING - In a bizarre twist in the Navalny FSB assassination case, Navalny managed to trick one of the FSB officers involved into providing details of the assassination attempt by phone, all caught on camera. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
The FSB officer involved in the post-operation clean up provided details of the attempt in a 45+ minute call with Navalny, including details of where the poison was placed - Navalny's underpants. Image
The FSB officer also provided Navalny, who he believed to be the assistant of a senior government figure, with the reason why he thought the plot failed. Image
Read 7 tweets
14 Dec
Bellingcat, working with @the_ins_ru has identified the FSB team behind the attempted assassination on @navalny, uncovering phone records and flight records showing the team followed him over 30 times since he announced he would run for president
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Our investigation has also identified other instances where it appears there were attempts in poison Navalny, including one previously unknown incident where it appears his wife was exposed to an unknown agent during one of the trips the FSB team followed them on.
Details of how we investigated Russia's nerve agent based domestic assassination programme can be found here bellingcat.com/resources/2020…
Read 8 tweets
6 Nov
The Social Dilemma on Netflix is very good, especially as a companion piece to Behind the Curve. Both demonstrate how effective the internet is at detaching people from reality. It's something I see on all sorts of topics, from MH17 Truthers to Covid-19 Truthers, and beyond.
It's really remarkable when you compare different online communities that have a focus on conspiracy theories or an obsession about certain topics how many similarities you begin to see between those different communites.
What's particularly dangerous is when those communities result in people becoming increasingly isolated from real world interactions, because then the individual participating in those communities base their entire self-worth on interactions inside those online communities.
Read 10 tweets
22 Aug
Yevgeny Prigozhin responds to Bellingcat's recent investigations into his activity in Africa and smearing of journalists - "go fuck yourself". Sounds like we may have touched a nerve. spiegel.de/politik/auslan…
Part one about his involvement in Africa, and with the Russian military and Russian PMCs can be found here bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Part two about his organisations involvement in targeting journalists can be found here bellingcat.com/news/africa/20…
Read 4 tweets
16 Aug
Part two of this investigation should be out early next week, looking at Yevgeny Prigozhin’s history of illegally surveilling, threatening and harassing independent journalists, as well as organised disinformation campaigns targeting journalists bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
Internal documents and interviews with former staff members working for Prigozhin's organisations for the first time reveal specific plans for campaigns against individual journalists and news organisations.
We'll also look at the disinformation campaign by RIA FAN against Bellingcat that had Prigozhin's direct involvement, triggered by the investigations in Prigozhin we're publishing at the moment. It's all gone a bit meta.
Read 9 tweets
17 Jun
THREAD - Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman gave one of their notorious press conferences today, where they yet again accused a public figure of a terrible crime, this time @JoeNBC. The accuser was Mark Hoffman, but there was something wrong with "Mark".
archive.fo/S0qpH
Mark couldn't attend the Wohl-Burkman press event in person, and had some technical issues that meant he wasn't able to appear on video as promised, only audio. After examining his Twitter account it became clear this wasn't an accident.
Bellingcat's @arictoler noticed a few problem with Mark Hoffman's face, clear signs it had been generated by thispersondoesnotexist.com, a website for making fake faces from scratch
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