I'm Eliot Higgins, aka Brown Moses, of the Brown Moses Blog and now Bellingcat, AMA

I'm Eliot Higgins, probably more well known as Brown Moses of the Brown Moses Blog. I've just launched my new website, Bellingcat, which I'm currently also Kickstarting to ensure we can keep it going.

Bellingcat brings together writers who use open source investigations as part of their work, on a variety of subjects, so far including Syria, the downing of MH17, the Leveson Inquiry, the Murder of Daniel Morgan, with more to come.

Another part of Bellingcat is dedicated to guides and case studies to teach readers how to do their own open source investigations, and I'm working on a number of projects that aim to involve the readers of Bellingcat in collaborative investigative work that will allow them to make interesting discoveries and develop their open source investigative techniques.

Before Bellingcat, I ran the Brown Moses Blog, which lives on as the Brown Moses Podcast, where I looked mainly at the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, as well as have a separate blog, The Hackgate Files, which focused on the phone hacking scandal.

I now travel around giving talks about my work (which is summarised in this gif), along with my work on Bellingcat.

You can read more about me in this New Yorker article, and about Bellingcat here.