Bellingcat

Sources of funds for Bellingcat. All amounts in Euro. 40,000 were received by "governments".

Bellingcat is a self-described "independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects."

While Bellingcat claims that it "does not solicit or accept funding and contributions directly from any national government", their own reported income for 2021 contradicts this claim.

A 2021 Grayzone investigation uncovered that Bellingcat is an organisation largely funded by various European, UK and US intelligence agencies — including the National Endowment for Democracy, the European Union itself, and the Human Rights Foundation (an imperialist organisation that solely targets governments outside the imperial core). Additionally, a CIA official has declared that they "love" Bellingcat.

With this funding, Bellingcat has promoted ShamiWitness, The Islamic State's top recruiter and propagandist on Twitter, and routinely publishes propaganda against Russia (i.e. in the interest of the imperial core).

Despite Bellingcat's claims to value “ …the use of open source material…”, the founder and creative director, Eliot Higgins, has openly mocked Julian Assange.

Since the Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, Bellingcat has published six reports minimising the genocide of the Palestinian people prepetuated by Isreal. Notablely, they have failed to publish any reports on the continuous bombing campaigns, starvation and massacres – partialarly the Flour Massacre – on the men, women and children in the Gaza Strip.