NEW: We spoke to the Italian journalist who was targeted on WhatsApp with government spyware made by Paragon.
“I feel violated,” Francesco Cancellato told me. “It is actually quite strange for a journalist to be spied on in a Western democracy.”
Cancellato is the director of Fanpage.it, which last year published a damning investigation on the youth wing of the current far-right government in Italy.
Full story, which includes the text of the notification he received from WhatsApp, here:
http://techcrunch.com/2025/02/03/journalist-targeted-on-whatsapp-by-paragon-spyware-i-feel-violated/
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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