Pegasus spyware was used to hack reporters’ phones. I’m suing its creators | Nelson Rauda Zablah
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In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Yolande Knell reflects on her experience working in El Salvador.
As we walked, he warned me that my colleagues at El Faro, the Salvadoran news organization, were being followed because of a story they were pursuing about negotiations between the president of El Salvador and the notorious MS-13 gang. Forensic analysis by the Citizen Lab and others found that Pegasus attacks in El Salvador started in June 2020 and continued until November 2021. My colleagues Gabriela Cáceres and Carlos Martínez were hacked as they continued to reveal more details about the government’s dealing with gangs and a thwarted criminal investigation about it.
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