@aligodeo: Reuters published the legal name of a man whose anonymity was his primary protection against state prosecution, civil liability, and physical harm. His lawyer told them this in writing before publication. They published anyway.[finestresullarte +2] The subject’s most recent major work was painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in direct response to the British government proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Reuters’ own editorial justification named that piece as a reason he “deserved” identification. The state’s critics are the people Reuters decided the public needs identified. Not its lobbists or politicians. Simon Gardner runs the global safety infrastructure for Reuters journalists. He co-authored a story that, by his own organisation’s standards, creates serious physical risk for the subject. That is a documented contradiction between his institutional role and his personal career decision. James Pearson built a track record of naming intelligence operatives — Russian FSB, Chinese state hackers — using OSINT and immigration records. He then linked his own published reporting when Western governments sanctioned those people. He applied the same methodology to Banksy. The infrastructure for state action now exists where it did not exist two weeks ago. Blake Morrison has spent 15 years building investigations that changed law, triggered prosecutions, and produced congressional inquiries. In 2026 he co-edited a piece that confirmed what a tabloid printed in 2008. The opportunity cost is what he didn’t spend that year on. His new job is covering the DOJ and FBI. Thomson Reuters is majority-controlled by one family whose ownership exemption was carved out of the independence rules designed to prevent exactly that. The company owns a subsidiary in McLean, Virginia — CIA’s home town — that holds over $120 million in Pentagon and Homeland Security contracts and is staffed by former CIA, DHS and intelligence-community executives. British government documents declassified in 2019 confirm the Foreign Office secretly paid Reuters through the 1960s and 70s to shape coverage in the Middle East and Latin America. Reuters confirmed it. #reuters #report

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