We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Higgins, Eliot

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Fascinating ... A powerful, exhortatory call to arms."--New York Times Book Review "A David-and-Goliath story for the digital age ... Thrilling."--Foreign Policy The page-turning inside story of the global team wielding the internet to fight for facts and combat autocracy--revealing the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to hold the powerful to account. In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn't pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. We Are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists-