Episode 767 • • 1:20:30 - 1:25:31
767: Frontier Science
Bellingcat, Google Funding and MH17 Journalism
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins announced that the organization received funding from Google News Lab to sustain operations and hire full-time staff. The hosts express skepticism regarding Bellingcat's independence and its reporting on the MH17 shootdown. They also criticize an NPR report by Corey Flintoff for implying that the Dutch Safety Board report concluded a Russian crew must have operated the Buk missile, a detail not explicitly stated in the official findings.