Eliot Higgins
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 24h agoBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Cool, they've invented something that can run their own spearphishing campaigns with malicious code, that'll help society - OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test
AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk
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Tipp: Um KI-generierte Bilder zu identifizieren, gibt es neben openai.com/de-DE/resear... z. B. C2PA Content Credentials Verify: verify.contentauthenticity.org Weitere Verifizierungstools bietet Bellingcat: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/cate... Am besten kombinieren mit umgekehrter Bildersuche etc.
Von OpenAI generierte Inhalte verifizieren
Überprüfe, ob ein Bild oder eine Audiodatei mithilfe von OpenAI-Tools generiert wurde. Lade eine Datei hoch, um nach Herkunftssignalen wie C2PA-Metadaten oder SynthID-Wasserzeichen zu suchen.
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Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 6h agoThis image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/
UK PM Burnham considering inquiry into Epstein, minister says reut.rs/4fD1iOy
UK PM Burnham considering inquiry into Epstein, minister says
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is looking at holding a public inquiry into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his actions in the UK, victims minister Alex Davies-Jones told the BBC.
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BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide
A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
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New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...
New York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI
When Malachy Browne started piecing together videos of the Arab Spring in early 2011, he wasn’t thinking about building a new kind of journalism. He was just trying to figure out what was real.What be...
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In May we covered some of the IDF demolitions in southern Lebanon finding that at least 46 villages within the IDF’s “yellow line” had been heavily damaged: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...
Satellite Imagery Shows Ongoing Demolitions Across Southern Lebanon - bellingcat
Dozens of towns and villages within the IDF's “Yellow Line” in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or destroyed in recent months.
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Satellite imagery also appears to show an increase in demolished infrastructure across the area during July. The nearby village of Kfar Tebnit, one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in southern Lebanon, shows signs of gradual destruction over several days in July and into August.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) also confirmed that their troops had demolished “several key underground routes in the Beaufort Ridge area” in a statement on their social media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3dw...
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Last week, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said the tunnels "were blown up using approximately 700 tons of explosives." They claimed the demolitions were retaliation for a Hezbollah drone attack the previous day. www.timesofisrael.com/idf-demolish...
IDF demolishes Hezbollah tunnels below southern Lebanon’s Beaufort Ridge
PM and defense minister say subterranean system blown up in response to drone attack a day earlier, after postponing the demolition due to the framework deal reached in June
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The affected area around the castle appears to be 1.4km2 which is the equivalent of 196 football (soccer) fields.
New Sentinel-2 satellite imagery reveals the extent of damage caused by large scale Israeli detonations overnight on July 30 into July 31st around UNESCO World Heritage site Beaufort Castle in Lebanon.
Tonight is the culmination of one of the most heated and expensive Democratic Senate primaries in history. The stakes are incredibly high, but they're perhaps highest for the Dem establishment, which threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed. www.messageboxnews.com/p/is-michiga...
Is Michigan a Reckoning for the Democratic Establishment?
The Democratic Establishment went all in for Stevens, tonight we find out if it worked.
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Sen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."
We've been covering the Kinahan cartel for some time. If you'd like to learn more, you can read all of our coverage of the organised crime group on our website: www.bellingcat.com?s=kinahan. You can also watch our other videos with Search Party on the subject here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj0G...
Why these Irish cartel bosses are still free
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Read the full investigation into Ian Dixon on our website here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
Poster Boy: Sanctioned Kinahan Cartel Lieutenant Found Playing Padel in Dubai - bellingcat
A trusted lieutenant of the transnational Kinahan cartel has been found playing padel in Dubai, where he has become a poster boy for the racquet sport.
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How did we find Ian Dixon, a wanted member of the Kinahan cartel, on a padel court in Dubai? Search Party recounts how Bellingcat and @thetimes.com traced the digital trail that led to the alleged money handler for one of the world's most dangerous crime cartels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=49NZ...
Cartel member found playing Padel
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❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
excerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate
Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterdayThe judge's sentencing remarks when this man was jailed for antisemitic harassment of Luciana Berger are absolutely horrifying www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
BREAKING: Russian state has started a campaign targeting the upcoming 2027 presidential elections in France. Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network posted a series of fake videos and magazine covers on X/Twitter today smearing Gabriel Attal, a candidate endorsed by Emmanuel Macron's party.
These allegations, based on reviews of nonpublic records held by the Treasury Dept, are detailed in Wyden’s report, “Looking the Other Way: How Wall Street Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking.” The document describes Wyden's multi-year investigation into Epstein’s financial network.
Bank of America didn't promptly report millions of dollars in suspicious Epstein-related transactions connected to billionaire Leon Black, including "two unusual wires" & others that did “not have a verifiable business purpose” and “no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose”
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption when killed, jury told
Journalist’s son says his mother was examining leak from Electrogas, part owned by Yorgen Fenech who is on trial Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating suspected corruption by the businessman Yorgen Fenech and members of Malta’s government when she was killed, a jury has heard. The heir to one of Malta’s biggest fortunes, Fenech is on trial for murder, accused of commissioning and paying for Caruana Galizia’s killing in a car bombing in October 2017. Continue reading...
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"NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found" news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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