THREAD: Okay we need to have a chat about the rise to prominence of @eliothiggins & @bellingcat. The MSM's new case study on how to become an establishment sanctioned new media outlet.

Compare and contrast the way the mainstream media and the establishment have opened it's arms up to @eliothiggins & @bellingcat as opposed to its hostility and aggression towards say @skwawkbox or @TheCanaryUK

Also contrast the way @bellingcat's amateur hour "investigative journalism" is treated with credibility and accepted as a gold standard without any scrutiny whatsoever compared to the previously mentioned organisations

Key differences between @bellingcat & @skwawkbox? Their stance to the establishment narrative and their key backers.

pushes the establishment narrative and works relentlessly to find (at best amateur and comical) evidence to push this, their flimsy and nefarious "research" never questioned or scrutinised by the establishment