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."