Yeah thats not true David.
Higgins has received significant praise and support from human rights groups, journalists, and non-profit organisations. In 2013, Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at
Human Rights Watch said "Brown Moses is among the best out there when it comes to weapons monitoring in Syria".
[2] The New York Times war reporter
C.J. Chivers said, in 2013, that fellow journalists owe a debt to Higgins' investigative reporting in Syria. "Many people, whether they admit or not, have been relying on that blog's daily labour to cull the uncountable videos that circulate from the conflict," he said.
[2] Amnesty International said, in 2013, that the Brown Moses Blog was vital in proving the Syrian government was using ballistic missiles, information then used to send a research mission to Syria.
[49]
Higgins has been a subject of interest for the British and U.S. media. In 2015, he was described as "one of the world's foremost citizen journalists" by
News Limited reporter Victoria Craw.
[50] He has been profiled in print by
The Guardian,
[2] The Independent,
[12] The Huffington Post,
[8] and
The New Yorker.
[3] Television features have been run by
Channel 4 News[49] and
CNN International.
[9] He has also been covered by non-English sources.
[51]
A 2015
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award (Sonderpreis) for excellence in journalism was awarded to Higgins and bellingcat.
[52] In 2019, he was announced as one of
Foreign Policy magazine's Global Thinkers.
[53] In 2021, he was named one of the 28 most influential people in Europe, in the "Disrupters" category, by
Politico Europe.
But its a tough call, whether to believe Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and somebody that was awarded an award for excellence in journalism or David, 71 from Wigan.
I guess the people will make their own mind up.
