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Notes from the Digital Field: Ethical Dilemmas in Open Source Research - bellingcat
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Bellingcat is a CIA asset
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/kings-college-london0training-social-media-managers/281787/
I'll have to look into this more, but I find this a bit questionable because they put out articles against the US / US interests too. It's just recently some of the focus has been on the Ukraine war.
The point behind what Bellingcat does is that the information and research process is verifiable and reproducible, rather than being about blind trust in a news org. So you don't have to trust what they're saying is true, you can go and check it yourself.
Even if that weren't the case and it was about trust, the sites you just linked have questionable history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News