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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

His early stencil work is actually very much the same style:

James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

Among the many things we found: In September 2000, New York police nabbed Banksy for defacing a billboard in Manhattan. We located and dated that billboard. We also unearthed the artist's handwritten—and signed—confession, published here for the first time. 6/7

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

We consulted Banksy experts, art dealers, and buyers. We pored over scores of photos and reviewed never-before-published court and police records. We even went to a Massive Attack concert. 5/7

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

Best known for simple yet sophisticated work infused with searing social commentary, Banksy has produced art that's generated tens of millions of dollars in sales. Despite his fame, few know with certainty his real name. 4/7

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

He had assembled a photo lineup of possible Banksys to show Ukrainian residents who saw the artist paint a mural there. The candidates included a man previously identified by British tabloids as Banksy. But that wasn't the man who one local seemed to recognise. 2/7

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 13/03/2026

In 2022, my colleague was on assignment in Ukraine for @reuters.com when he unearthed a tantalising clue which pointed to the identity of world famous street artist Banksy. 1/7 🧵

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 01/10/2025

Traders at their stalls minutes after an exploding Russian drone hit the roof of an indoor market in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. 📸REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 15/04/2025

"...combat groups of the 8th Battalion are retreating into the forest ..." Our latest investigation into North Korean troops fighting for Russia contains radio intercepts, shared by Ukrainian intelligence, straight from the front line:

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 27/03/2025

Using chatGPT’s latest image model to bring my three-year-old’s scribble to life:

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 04/03/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as Tehran deepened its defence cooperation with Moscow, a Reuters review of travel records and employment data indicates.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 22/01/2025

Fascinating story via the Daily NK - on North Korean smart phones, attempting to write 'oppa' (오빠) triggers a digital warning and the phone changes the word to 'comrade' (동지). Same happens with a lot of commonly used South Korean colloquialisms: www.dailynk.com/20250122-1/

Side-by-side sreenshots of a North Korean smart phone, showing the 'before and after' of what happens when attempting to type South Korean words. In this instance, 'oppa' (literally meaning elder brother but colloquially meaning boyfriend/darling) is replaced with 'dongji', meaning comrade.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 16/10/2024

Based on those photos and our sourcing, we were able to reconstruct the pager-bomb's design. One crucial clue was that the battery sold with the pagers was too heavy for its stated energy capacity, indicating 'missing mass'.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 05/09/2024

The organisation has since received a boost to its budget from the U.S. State Department via its “Surge and Sustain Fund for Anti-Censorship Technology”, an initiative created at the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 05/09/2024

The tools, backed by the Washington, DC-based Open Technology Fund, have seen a surge of usage in Russia, Iran, Myanmar and authoritarian states that heavily censor the internet.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 21/11/2023

That data also revealed an account on a website selling digital templates to create realistic-looking fake identification documents, including U.S. driving licences, visas and passports.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 21/11/2023

We also spoke to a North Korean IT worker who recently defected. He examined the documents and confirmed their authenticity to Reuters. "We would create 20 to 50 fake profiles a year until we were hired," he said. Here are some of the faked resumes Unit 42 found.

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James Pearson @pearswick.press · 21/11/2023

The Unit 42 documents contain dozens of fraudulent resumes, online profiles, interview notes, and forged identities that North Korean workers used to apply for jobs in software development. There are even forged green cards, like this one, used by 'Richard'.

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