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8 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Our latest on @bellingcat takes a look at the journey of Ashli Babbitt, from Obama supporter to MAGA QAnon cultist, and the shooting in the Capitol building on January 6th that led to her death.
bellingcat.com/news/2021/01/0…
In 2018, Ashli Babbitt expressed support for President Obama and opposition to Hillary Clinton, which led to her voting for Trump.
A year later, she was already referring to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led many to QAnon conspiracy theories
Within months of that tweet, she began referring to QAnon in her tweets, using related hashtags and terms, such as “WWG1WGA” (Where We Go One We Go All)
On January 5th 2021 see tweeted that she would be in Washington DC, stating the "storm is here and it is descending upon DC "
24 hours later, and Babbitt was inside the Capitol building, shot as she tried to enter the Speaker’s Lobby through a broken door window. The shooting led to her eventual death.
Already, some of her fellow QAnon supporters are claiming her death was a false flag, accusing her of being a CIA agent, and claiming her fabricated shooting was an attempt to stop challenges to "voter fraud".

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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.
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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
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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…
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6 Nov 20
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.
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22 Aug 20
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…
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16 Aug 20
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.
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