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Jan 17,, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Director of @bellingcat, @EliotHiggins, is spreading misinformation on Declassified's article.

First, he falsely says it didn't say Bellingcat is a Dutch NGO.

The article clearly states it is registered in the Netherlands. (Read our article here -- bit.ly/323X3bI)
Second, Higgins claims Bellingcat is "not a UK based organisation". In fact, Bellingcat is also registered at Companies House as a UK-incorporated limited company, with a registered office in Leicester.
Higgins has tweeted Bellingcat received funds from the US National Endowment for Democracy from at least 2017. This was before Bellingcat was registered in the Netherlands in 2018 and while it was a UK-incorporated company which it still is.
Bellingcat ignored two requests from us for information on its funding from the National Endowment for Democracy. Will @eliothiggins now be transparent on the amount of funds @Bellingcat has received from the NED since 2017 and before?

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