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Free speech matters. Here is an example.

On YouTube, all of the first 40 hits when you search for Bellingcat are positive on Bellingcat (or report whatever they reported).

On Rumble, about 15 of the first 20 hits are negative on Bellingcat (I say "about" because one was a foreign language, and another was not clear by the title and I didn't bother listening).

If we didn't have a free speech alternative platform, nobody would know about the claims and evidence that Bellingcat is sketchy. Could they all be Russian disinformation about Bellingcat? Sure. But we get to be the judge of that.

I tend to judge them as a probable CIA asset because they never find the West guilty of anything, only Russia. And they amazingly have access to information that is impossible for any normal person to access... and they did so long before they had their own funded satellites. Also a UK report found "Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by spreading disinformation itself, and by being willing to produce reports for anyone willing to pay."

Leopold Bloom 2y ago

“An email sent on November 12 2020 by an officer within Amsterdam’s National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) shows the agency was keeping an extremely close eye on a Bellingcat investigation published an hour earlier. Dutch spooks sought to use its contents for their own media strategies and messaging following its release. The revealing communication is irrefutable proof of Bellingcat’s propaganda value to Western intelligence services – and could provide an indication of a cozy relationship between the self-styled “independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists” and spying agencies.

In the message, marked “high importance,” the undisclosed author explained that Bellingcat had published research amounting to a deeply libelous attack on independent journalists and researchers, who challenged the mainstream narrative surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. As such, the Dutch intelligence officer wrote, “it is probably smart to put together interdepartmental wording for this already”:

“Because the article highlights several sides (MH17 but also COVID19) it is probably wise to wait a while and see if; a. the mainstream media pick it up; b. from which angle the media pick up and highlight it (MH17 or COVID); c. from this angle to determine the wording and therefore which department is in the lead; d. coordinate the language as much as possible interdepartmentally.””

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