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[Elliot Higgins] previously worked in finance and administration. In 2012, when Higgins began blogging the Syrian civil war, he was unemployed and spent his days taking care of his child at home

So I guess we're every bit as qualified to look at warzone videos in our underwear, make claims about whodunnit, then send off to the NYT?

Bellingcat has received grants from Adessium, Digital News Initiative, Open Society Foundation, Pax, Porticus, National Endowment for Democracy, The Dutch Postcode Lottery, Zinc Network (funded by British foreign office)

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad.

Bellingcat also receives funding via PAX which is directly funded by Netherlands Foreign Ministry.

Soft-power apparati for three NATO members, funding some rando to look at videos and offer opinions on them... still have that bridge to sell.

We know for certain that none of the pasty fucks at the NYT spent enough time in Syria to do their own actual investgation.

If anyone has time to trace funding for the other orgs, I'm sure that even more gold will be struck.