# Bellingcat  ## TL;DR - Achieved nonprofit status in the US [effective](https://archive.is/lKfc2) 11-01-2022. ## URLs Website: https://www.bellingcat.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bellingcat ## Aggregate ### Nonprofit Status [Archive](https://archive.is/lKfc2)  ### Wikipedia > **Bellingcat** is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British citizen journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies. Bellingcat began as an investigation into the use of weapons in the Syrian civil war. Its reports on the Russo-Ukrainian War (including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17), the El Junquito raid, the Yemeni Civil War, the Skripal poisoning, and the killing of civilians by the Cameroon Armed Forces have attracted international attention. > - *from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat)* # Tags ---- - **First Indexed:** 06-06-2023 - 6:32 pm - **Last Updated:** 06-06-2023 - 6:33 pm