Bellingcat
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Website type | Investigative journalism |
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| Headquarters | , Netherlands |
| Owners | Stichting Bellingcat formerly: Brown Moses Media Ltd. |
| Creator | Eliot Higgins |
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| Launched | 2014 |
url. Replace with website.type. Replace with website_type.programming_language. Replace with written_in.location_city. Replace with headquarters_city.location_country. Replace with headquarters_country.launch_date. Replace with launched.Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.
Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies. In 2025, Bellingcat expanded operations to the United States.
Bellingcat began as an investigation into the use of weapons in the Syrian civil war. Its reports on the Russo-Ukrainian War (including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17), the El Junquito raid, the Yemeni Civil War, the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and the killing of civilians by the Cameroon Armed Forces have attracted international attention.