Alexey Kovalev: “Another noodle story”

“The story is short, less than 5 minutes, but the title is intriguing: “Orders of the information field: where fakes about Syria are born.” To begin with, we habitually go through Elliott Higgins and the Bellingcat website. “Armed only with a laptop and hostility towards Russia, the only author of the Bellingcat website” - In this phrase, only the name of the site is true; if you look at it, then on the main page, in addition to articles on Russian topics (who the Russian Aerospace Forces are bombing in Syria), you also find material about Detroit gangs, and about the Azerbaijani missile forces, and about how write a Python script to search for the same Google Analytics IDs on different sites.

The articles on the main page are written by at least five different authors, only one of whom is Higgins."