Eliot Higgins

MINNEAPOLIS  — A new report has exposed the past collaboration of Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat and influential neo-conservatives with the “most influential Twitter account” of the terror group Daesh, also known as the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS). That collaboration helped promote the account, which posted under the Twitter handle @shamiwitness, as an “expert” on foreign jihadists while also helping to promote the account’s pro-Daesh messaging.

Frequent guest and friend of the show Robbie Martin joined me this week. We started off by discussing Reddit’s recent quarantining of 23 subreddits. We focused on their quarantine of the 9/11 Truth subreddit. We talked about the specific language that was used for 9/11 Truth about misinformation, and that the fact that no other quarantines specified misinformation. Robbie talked about the levels to which 9/11 Truth has been stifled in the past few years. We also contemplated the role of open source and crowd sourced research in today’s political landscape.

NEW YORK — The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York.

Decades ago, philosopher Marshall McLuhan predicted a future world war fought using information. While World War I and World War II were waged using armies and mobilized economies, “World War III [will be] a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation,” McLuhan said, a prophecy included in his 1970 book of reflections, Culture Is Our Business.

The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative are hilarious if you take a step back and think about them. I mean, the Western empire is now openly admitting to having funded actual, literal terrorist groups in that country, and yet they’re still cranking out propaganda pieces about what is happening there and sincerely expecting us to believe them.

Scott Ritter
The American Conservative

OB : quand Google, BellingCat et des étudiants vont “dire le vrai” et surveiller nos élections…
Mais bon, l’avenir est à la collaboration qu’ils disent…

Dossier Eliot Higgins / Bellingcat par Édouard Vuiart

1. Chomsky : “Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.”

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Dossier Eliot Higgins / Bellingcat par Édouard Vuiart

1. Chomsky : “Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.”
2. Eliot Higgins : La Fable
3. Qui est Eliot Higgins ?

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Dossier Eliot Higgins / Bellingcat par Édouard Vuiart

1. Chomsky : “Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.”
2. Eliot Higgins : La Fable
3. Qui est Eliot Higgins ?

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Dossier Eliot Higgins / Bellingcat par Édouard Vuiart

1. Chomsky : “Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.”
2. Eliot Higgins : La Fable
3. Qui est Eliot Higgins ?

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