Before investigations into passenger jets shot from the sky, before stories about Novichok poisoning in an English cathedral city and before a crucial position in the war of disinformation, for Eliot Higgins there were internet message boards. Eliot Higgins’s online life began in this world and now as the founder of Bellingcat, the open source investigative website, he says he is still arguing with people on the internet. Sometimes the same people he encountered years ago, sometimes people who may be more dangerous and intimidating than the people he first encountered on the Something Awful message board. “It’s never like…

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