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Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat : Algorithms don’t drive the truth
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Algorithms don’t drive the truth Amol Rajan speaks to Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative organisation Bellingcat, as the world grapples with the growing threat posed by misinformation and conspiracy theories being deliberately spread online. Founded in 2014, Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists from around the world. The organisation uses open-source research methods, which involve analysing publicly-available data that can be accessed and used without any special permissions or restrictions. It has investigated a variety of subjects of public interest, including the shooting down of flight MH17 over…