Interview: Behind the Internet’s ‘Quiet Revolution’

How did Bellingcat start? It was almost accidental. In 2011, I’d been working for a company that housed refugees. That company lost its government contract and had to close, so I ended up in an office by myself waiting for everything to wind down. I had quite a lot of free time and I spent much of it on the Guardian Middle East live blog, which covered the Arab Spring. I’d log on and kind of argue with people in the comments about what was happening, but there was always this question of what was true and what wasn’t. So, to win an argument on the internet, I figured out I could use satellite imagery…

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