Eliot Higgins
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
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Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.
eliothiggins.bsky.social
Occasionally Cambridge, not had an invite to Norwich yet.
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brighthink.bsky.social
Join us in the Tusk Room, Brighton , on Tues 14th Oct, as founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, discusses the pioneering investigative collective and it's groundbreaking work in online open-source investigations into war crimes, corruption, and propaganda.

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This week, Bellingcat's @colborne.bsky.social will tackle the Bellingcat Challenge live. Michael is used to mapping the movements of the transnational far-right; let’s see how he handles mapping the movements of ships...
Help him out on Wednesday, 5pm CEST/11am EDT: www.youtube.com/live/dOQc2sd...
Bellingcat Open Source Challenges - Live!
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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colborne.bsky.social
Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die”

(not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)
maartenhopman.bsky.social
Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.
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murshedz.bsky.social
👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.
atrupar.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)
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nameshiv.bsky.social
the real takeaway here is even vance is on national tv saying that its totally fair to ask why trump sucks at making deals
atrupar.com
JD Vance: "We want to make sure that they skyrocketing healthcare costs of the Biden administration start to level off and hopefully come down."
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jagolinzer.bsky.social
It’s about the harms.

"When people falsely claim that we are doing censorship work, I think…what they are trying to do is stop us from trying to understand the harms they are trying to push...using bad information.

I think…we want research in trying to understand harms.”

youtu.be/kFoO3H_upAI
University of Cambridge Prof Jagolinzer on the need to understand the harms from disinformation
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
"The videos have sound?!"
queenoliviaiii.com
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”
zaichishka.bsky.social
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
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volberg.bsky.social
Bit of a suprise. The 🇺🇸 has for months been helping 🇺🇦 mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities in an coordinated effort.
A 🇺🇸 official said 🇺🇦 selected strike targets & Washington provided intel on their vulnerabilities

www.ft.com/content/f9f4...
Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help
Trump administration has supported Kyiv’s operations since summer in a co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow
www.ft.com
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samfr.bsky.social
New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...
Russia and the rise of the radical right
Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
open.substack.com
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coreyryung.bsky.social
The Meritocracy!
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
It’s this multiple times a day
They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.
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mikaelthalen.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...
Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility
Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.
san.com
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jaredlholt.bsky.social
This is the longest episode we've ever done, and it's a banger. We've got a link to the drop on Patreon now. This will be on our main feed, so you'll get it first thing Monday morning on all the podcast apps -- just search "Posting Through It" and follow us there.

www.patreon.com/posts/044-wh...