Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truthβand a sharp sense of its limitsβin Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real ownersβ hands.
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."