Journalist-Targeting

Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients

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The Pegasus Project, a groundbreaking collaborative investigation by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations across 10 countries coordinated by Paris-based Forbidden Stories with technical support from Amnesty International, reveals that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used …

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Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination

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On May 15, 2017, award-winning Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, co-founder of the investigative outlet Río Doce and renowned for reporting on drug trafficking and organized crime in Sinaloa, is assassinated in broad daylight in Culiacán. Just two days later, on May 17, two of his …

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Citizen Lab Exposes Mexican Government Targeting of Journalists and Activists with Pegasus

| Importance: 9/10

Citizen Lab publishes “Reckless Exploit,” documenting that at least 22 members of Mexican civil society were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between 2015-2017, including lawyers, journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, anti-corruption advocates, and public …

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