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A review by soniab1711
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins
4.0
Really wanted to give this 5 stars. (I admit it's more for what Bellingcat does than for the book itself) But a chunk about identifying and verifying the Russian operatives that did the poisoning in the UK got a bit boring and my mind just drifted while reading it.
I understand it's necessary tho. Not sure if it was intentional. How the research was done was described in detail and the message would be "everyone can do it". I really like this message because it's a good mirror for people thinking retweeting/sharing IS activism. Here's something that doesn't require any more special skills than retweeting and sharing but you need to put in the time to comb through thousands of images and videos trying to find a match. Building database of conflicts before they become useful (and they may not be at the end).
I understand it's necessary tho. Not sure if it was intentional. How the research was done was described in detail and the message would be "everyone can do it". I really like this message because it's a good mirror for people thinking retweeting/sharing IS activism. Here's something that doesn't require any more special skills than retweeting and sharing but you need to put in the time to comb through thousands of images and videos trying to find a match. Building database of conflicts before they become useful (and they may not be at the end).