#43. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat – exposed

Updated: May 22, 23, 24 and 25 May, 2026

A. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat – exposed

1. Intro

It became clear on May 6, 2026, that in my post about the MH17, published in April, 2023, the links to two, in 2023 existing Bellingcat pages, both with pictures of a Russian BUK in Ukraine, in 2008, did not lead to the pages that I expected: the two links brought me this time both to the same page and the content and the pictures had been changed. Why did that happen? I found it so strange, that I started to search for info about Bellingcat, all the more so because during the last years I had frequently read comments in the social media that were warning against Bellingcat: Bellingcat was, according to these comments, not reliable. Today I found even more severe accusations, and when checking what information our “friend” Google was offering, I found, of course, that (for instance) The Grayzone¹ and Voltaire Network² are promoting conspiracy theories and are pro-Russia, pro-Iran and pro-Syria. Interesting! Why? During the years we get more and more, really excellently informed and educated via empirically proven to be reliable and independent sources, and that is why we, the public, know that the term conspiracy theory is a successful tool to keep the easy to manipulate public away from truth. Back to Bellingcat: their website has today a more advanced layout than in 2023, and I discovered that the posts show an undeniable anti-Russia approach, and are nothing less than western propaganda, used to legalize war and NATO expansion. That is an undeniable f a c t.

The two pictures that I found on their website in 2023 were actually evidence that Ukraine owned already Russian BUKs in 2008. Which is not strange at all, because Ukraine did not produce BUKs. Ukraine had these BUKs to defend itself against the west. Ukraine itself never felt the need to join NATO. The Ukrainian disinterest in becoming a NATO member is shown in reliable maps (Gallup), to be found in the MH17 blogpost. All this is important info however in the investigation of the downing of the MH17, so important that Bellingcat has removed the pictures. This is my hypothesis. It seems so, according to what is to be found on the web via “friend” Google, that Bellingcat and MH17 are also intertwined. Interesting!

About the BUKs in Ukraine:

“Ukraine does not manufacture entirely new Buk air defense missile systems, but began domestic production of upgraded anti-air missiles and system modifications during the full-scale war. The effort to modify existing Soviet-era Buk-M1 launchers to fire Western missiles began in late 2023.” – Source: IISS, February 24, 2025

The Bellingcat “research”, available on their website, is western propaganda³. Not strange when one finds via our “friend” Google who the Bellingcat sponsors are. What Bellingcat published however has been debunked by a.o.:

• Benoît Paré: What I Saw In Ukraine – 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer, 2025
• Benoît Paré: The Great Manipulation, 2025
• Professor Katchanovski: The Russia Ukraine War And Its Origins, From the Maidan to the Ukraine War, 2026
• and all others (38) on the list

The Bellingcat disinformation made me decide to expose the founder of Bellingcat, to expose his one-sided anti-Russia approach, as a blogger, and a self-acclaimed journalist without any official education and therefore not educated in the ethics of journalism, and not an expert in the field of history, or politics. He has been used by the collective west as their useful idiot. He has been made complicit in all evil that is coming, created by NATO expansion, western propaganda, and deliberately provoking Russia (admitted by Jens Stoltenberg, source), making Russians’ blood boil, and reason why Russia is forced to react. The west will get where it is, and was, undeniably begging for. The west is waiting for the answer on their brutal provocations. Yes, the war was provoked. Jens, thanks for admitting this. All by independent investigative journalists and other experts (check list) published articles, and analytical discussions show that the war was provoked. But the provocations only increased.

The latest news, published May 22, 2026: Russia Declares World War 3, West On High Alert. News, published May 23, 2026 by Alexander Mercouris, reading aloud and analysing Putin’s statement, published after the Kiev drone attacks (3 in total) on a school dormitory in Lugansk republic, reported also by the Finnish politician Armando Mema. Note: western media outlets have not written or spoken about the drone attacks.

When sooner or later the Big Boys and Big Girls in Europe, the collective west, learn to know the reality of the escalating provoked aggression of Russia, they must stay Big Boys and Big Girls also then, take the consequences of their own western provocations, and not cowardly blaming the Russians for it.

! Attention: a video, published July 17, 2021: MH17 witness brings Bellingcat to justice, and the video Bellingcat Scams MH17 Warplane Witness, published a year earlier, on July 14, 2020. Highlighted in it is the name Pieter Huis, and therefore it is interesting to check this PDF and screenshot, that I made on May 23, 2026, from the Bellingcat website. Furthermore: Playlist MH17, including discussions and documentaries. More details about Bellingcat, watch “GRU Assets“ with Max van der Werff (investigative Dutch journalist) and Yana Yerlashova (director, producer & documentary filmmaker). Both have realized the documentary: MH17 – Call For Justice, published on July 17, 2019.

2. How a simple, preoccupied amateur blogger could get an honorary doctorate (and why the university has to withdraw it)

Despite that what is written in the former chapter,

“[…]he [Eliot Higgins, Admin] was awarded in 2025 an honorary doctorate by Leiden University for his contributions to the use of open source intelligence

[the term “intelligence” has to be changed into “disinformation”, since “intelligence” is referring to in-depth thinking, independent, and Bellingcat itself shows, proves, not to be independent at all, even contributing to western propaganda, creating disinformation, and lies; in our time the term “intelligence” is abused everywhere and not guaranteeing per se real intelligence, deep knowledge, awareness and ethics; the CIA is also intelligence, also MI6, but shown to be corrupted, see article: “CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953”, Admin]

– gathering and analysing information from publicly available sources

[publicly available “sources”: like videos, articles, published on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, X, etc. are used by Higgins to prove delicts of what opposes the west’s view on justice, what opposes their propaganda. It is a fact that the most of all the existing profiles in the social media do not offer a real name, use a fake profile picture, do not offer a link to a website, or any education. But also a lot of so-called science, published on PubMed, and other science platforms, and publishing so-called “peer reviewed” articles can be corrupted, this has been shown.

The most essential factor in the total of information, is the one who is an expert in analysing the utterly careful collected —not cherry picked— information from empirically proven to be reliable sources, and putting the information into the right and complete context. That context is directly related to the complete and most detailed knowledge —if there, and otherwise honestly mentioning not to be informed good enough to judge— of for example historical facts, economical developments etc, able to analyse political leaders and judge in the correct way their characteristics and behaviour, because of many decades long serious observations, not affected by personal emotions, wishes or preferences. He does not push the listener into any specific direction. Since I follow him now for several years, almost daily, I have learned to know Alexander Mercouris as one of the most sincere, reliable and the most intelligent political analysts in the world, weighing his words on a golden scale to avoid misunderstanding or to offend someone. He is also a unique educator who makes difficult subjects easy to understand for all. He creates deep insights, awareness, has a fabulous memory, and an overall picture of a certain subject.

Since Higgins turns out to be a useful western propaganda parrot, it is obvious that he uses only “sources” that fit in his assumptions, half truths, twisted truths, and lies, and the assumptions of all who embrace him because of his western propaganda, like the University of Leiden. It should be forbidden that universities welcome anonymous “sources” and taking their “info” so serious that these “can be used to guarantee historical accuracy and fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases”. As happened with the Bellingcat “evidence”, to corrupt the MH17 investigations and even the trial. – Admin]

– to guarantee historical accuracy

[historical accuracy is completely absent in western propaganda, or twisted, or silenced, or deliberately neglected- Admin]

and fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases

[propaganda and the word “fair” in “fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases” do not match with each other. Propaganda is promoting just one side of the medal. The word “judicial”⁴ is related with justice, that choses what is right, truth, the full truth, and therefore neutral. The word judicial shows that it is impossible that propaganda can be used in a judicial process.]

Science cannot be committed to any particular beliefs, dogmas, or ideologies.

Conclusion: Leiden University is downgrading science by prostituting science, in order to serve western propaganda and bias. [Read also: “Evidence based science or prostitution?“][Watch: Whistleblower EXPOSES Shocking University Research]

Attention: The preoccupied Higgins (pro-western collective and anti-Russia) found his “science” in the social media, and other open sources, and created “truth” out of his puzzling with what he found there, and was fitting in his anti-Russia mindset, and anti-Russia attitude. He said: ‘Ban algorithms on social media, they poison our democracy‘ but the term democracy is falsely used: Higgins is collecting and publishing only that what serves his beliefs, dogma’s and ideologies. In a democracy all views are welcome, and censorship and propaganda are characteristics of totalitarianism. Not of democracy. The EU in Brussels shows to be transforming into a totalitarian regime⁵. University Leiden is abusing the term “university”, since the term is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning “the whole”. Leiden University rejects the whole, and supports propaganda for just one detail of the whole. This is directly related to 1.: NATO’s Cognitive Warfare. 2.: Dr. Tögel: State Terrorism and Cognitive Warfare – Understanding Propaganda. 3.: NATO Targeting EU Citizen’s Brains (Dr. Jonas Tögel). 4.: Massformation, mass psychosis, mass hypnosis (Dr. Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism)

3. Who is Eliot Higgins?

! Attention: the words that are not correctly used, or related with bias, libel and slander, when “analysis” or “investigations” are provided by Bellingcat, and therefore disinformation and propaganda, are coloured with yellow, and also footnotes have been added.

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Eliot Higgins is a British journalist and founder of investigative website Bellingcat. He is a well-known supporter⁶ of open source and free to access information which is reflected by his work and lectures⁷.

After high school Higgins studied media technology at Southampton Institute for Higher Education. He ultimately dropped out and became interested in investigative journalism after some years of working administrative jobs. At this point he had already been blogging under the pseudonym ‘Brown Moses’. Whilst watching something on the conflict in Lybia in 2011, Higgins noticed the great amount of relevant⁸ information posted on social media that got ignored because it couldn’t be verified⁹. This was the first time he applied the ‘Bellingcat method,’ which means cunningly combining footage¹⁰, maps and other online information¹¹ to answer questions on serious subjects such as bombardments and assassinations.

This raised Higgins’ enthusiasm for the job after which he founded Bellingcat. These days the investigation initiative has dozens of organizations and philanthropists to fund its activities and has grown to a renowned collective. Famous and influential investigations of the website include the ones on the War in Ukraine¹², the crash of MH-17¹³, the Syrian Civil War¹⁴, the Yemeni Civil War and the poisoning of the supposed Russian double agent Sergei Skripal¹⁵,¹⁶,¹⁷ and his daughter.

Higgins and Bellingcat are currently preoccupied with lots of similar investigations and other projects. Amongst these, Higgins is mainly excited about the development of a reverse-image search for online videos.

Source: University Utrecht

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Footnotes

1. The Grayzone videos about Bellingcat ↩︎
2. Voltaire Network, article: Everything on Bellingcat and the official inquiry into the destruction of Flight MH17 / All 42 Voltaire Network articles about Bellingcat ↩︎
3. My accusations are based on the fact that Higgins is embraced by the mainstream media, while those who contradict the mainstream media are banned from the mainstream media, banned from the common talk shows, silenced, ignored, and categorized as conspiracy theorists, Putinists, liars, spreading disinformation, while speaking truth. This automatically shows that Bellingcat and its owner: Higgins, spread disinformation, lies, and propaganda, contribute to warmongering, Russophia, and guilty of obstructing / blocking peace talks. ↩︎
4. Judicial relates to the administration of justice, courts of law, or the functions of a judge. It typically describes anything connected to the legal system, legal judgments, or the branch of government responsible for interpreting and applying the law. Source: Cambridge Dictionary. ↩︎
5. The EU sanctioned 59 Europeans, what does this mean? (Playlist). ↩︎
6. The word supporter is a scam. Higgins is doing the opposite: he is undermining the evidence of real investigative journalism, of science. ↩︎
7. The word “lecture” is related with professors and doctors who educate at universities. Higgins is NOT a professor, NOT a doctor. He has not finished any study, has not any education in journalism and does not know the ethics of journalism. ↩︎
8. relevant information posted on social media: a misused term, because he and he alone decided that it was relevant, because fitting within his own bubble of assumptions, and meant in another way: information that was different from what he found generally, and posted there by unknown profiles, that he categorizes as reliable sources. ↩︎
9. Verified: so, he took info, that could not be verified as truth, and was verifying it by using it for his Bellingcat posts. This is making science, facts, out of what is most likely nonsense. This is making science out of his own assumptions. This is anti-science. ↩︎
10. footage: there are a lot of footages available on social media, and deliberately edited, falsified, and not reliable, unless the source is known, and proven to be reliable, on the long term. ↩︎
11. online information: there are a lot of online information available, and deliberately edited, falsified, and not reliable, unless the source is known, and proven to be reliable, on the long term. A scientist does not do his work or job in this way. An investigative journalist not either. ↩︎
12. The war in Ukraine: for the real facts go to: Books, in the menu above, check the list, and the playlists. ↩︎
13. The facts about the MH17, other than the Bellingcat “facts”: The MH17 case has to re-start from scratch, published May 6, 2026 ↩︎
14. For in-depth and reliable information about the war in Syria, watch the videos published by Kevork Almassian, who hosts the channel Syriana Analysis. ↩︎
15. Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg on Substack: The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed ↩︎
16. Max Milo playlist: L’Affaire Navalny / Book Jacques Baud: L’Affaire Navalny. Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries, and head of the United Nations peacekeeping operations doctrine. He was involved in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials immediately after the collapse of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine, notably during the Maidan Revolution in 2014. Jacques Baud is sanctioned by the EU, since December 2025. What does this mean? ↩︎
17. The Grayzone: Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, ‘discredited’ state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia ↩︎

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