[commoner]

> The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists.

Usually, joint investigations between multiple media outlets are released in a planned fashion. It's rare to see 17 news outlets collaborate on one story, but when "more than 180 journalists" have been targeted with Pegasus, it may be that the targeted journalists worked together on this investigation, using their exploited devices as evidence.

[WarOnPrivacy]

In the US, journalists were long reluctant to discuss Gov surveillance abuses in any meaningful way - even when they were targeted.

Snowden basically dragged news orgs into reporting it. After that initial rush tho, reporting was largely muted. Most DoJ and other abuses were minimally covered if at all.

That improved somewhat during the next administration but authoritarian deference still seemed in play to me.

[Goety]

>That improved somewhat during the next administration

I heavily disagree?

[WarOnPrivacy]

Are you asserting that journalists were more accepting of Gov mistreatment, during the Trump admin? That doesn't jibe with what I saw.

[Goety]

Fair point. It's difficult to determine much beyond that given the abnormal status of Trump.