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Hungary: IPI demands inquiry into use of Pegasus spyware against journalists

The IPI global press freedom network today called for an immediate government inquiry into the alleged spyware attacks targeting journalists in Hungary using the Pegasus tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group. The call follows the revelations by an international media consortium revealing how the spyware has been illegally deployed by Hungarian intelligence […]

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Pegasus Project: Full investigation needed after 180 journalists targeted by spyware

The IPI global press freedom network is appalled by the potential hacking of the phones of 180 journalists in at least 10 countries from 2016 to 2021 using the spyware Pegasus, a cyber-surveillance tool sold to governments to allegedly monitor terrorist activities. The information, disclosed on Sunday by Forbidden Stories and a consortium of 16 […]

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Hungary: IPI demands inquiry into use of Pegasus spyware against journalists

The IPI global press freedom network today called for an immediate government inquiry into the alleged spyware attacks targeting journalists in Hungary using the Pegasus tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group. The call follows the revelations by an international media consortium revealing how the spyware has been illegally deployed by Hungarian intelligence […]

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Belgian film #FatUglySlut zeroes in on online abuse against women

Some of the women journalists whom IPI has interviewed over the years have said that one way to get some distance to the online misogyny they faced was to take it as a subject of analysis for their work. Azerbaijani journalist Arzu Geybulleva, for example, reported on the troll armies that directed their hatred against […]

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