Eliot Higgins and his forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a nose for truth in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
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Ukraine’s personal shopper
In the war against Russia, some Ukrainians carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich carries a shopping list. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.
Cargo Shipping’s Carbon Moonshot
Container ships burn some of the dirtiest fuel there is and spew out huge amounts of greenhouse gas. But the business is poised for a dramatic shift. The ambition to clean up shipping is “like a moon shot.”
The Thirst of Bangalore
That term, water mafia, conjures an image straight out of Mad Max—gangs of small-time Immortan Joes running squadrons of belching tankers, turning a city’s water on and off at will. When I first started to hear about Bangalore’s crisis, that lurid image was hard to...
Macedonia’s Fake-News Complex
President Barack Obama himself spent a day in the final week of the campaign talking “almost obsessively” about Veles and its “digital gold rush.” Between August and November, Boris earned nearly $16,000 off his two pro-Trump websites. The average monthly salary in...