Eliot Higgins

Eliot Higgins, pseudonym Brown Moses (from the Frank Zappa song), is an English blogger and online researcher. His Brown Moses Blog, which studies open source information from sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, has become a key source of information for journalists worldwide on the weapons being used in the Syrian civil war. Some of the videos uncovered and documented by Brown Moses include the use of cluster bombs in 2012, which the Syrian government denied using, the use of so-called "barrel bombs", which the Russians denied existed, otherwise unknown details of the August 21st Sarin attack, and the proliferation of Croatian-made weapons, a story later picked up by The New York Times