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Eliot Higgins - Founder of Bellingcat

Stephen Sackur talks to Eliot Higgins. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction?

Stephen Sackur talks to Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website Bellingcat. What's the truth behind the shooting down of the Malaysian airlines flight MH17? Or the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal? Or the recent assassination of a Chechen rebel fighter in Berlin? Eliot Higgins thinks he can piece together complex truths from digital fragments sifted from the worldwide web. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction?

24 minutes

Last on

Thu 12 Dec 2019 00:30GMT

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Interviewer Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Eliot Higgins

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