We Are Bellingcat

Very inspiring. Who doesn't want to be an online sleuth to help solve crime, assist human rights watch initiatives, and combat authoritarian governments and their misinformation-spewing propaganda media houses.

I appreciate the level of detail with with Higgins describes how he and his team of investigative journalists follow crumbs through the social media dataverse to extract useful information. They meticulously browse google-earth to geolocate sites of crimes, calculate the sun-shadow angle in images to verify dates and locations, and sift through tons of Russian dash-cam footage to find the exact id number on a missile in transport. All this with the open-source ethic of transparency.

Inspired.