Thread by @gijn

🧵According to findings by @R3Dmx, with support from @citizenlab, journalists & human rights defenders in Mexico were hacked using Pegasus spyware as recently as 2021, even after the country’s government said it was no longer going to use the software. buff.ly/3y6I0e3

🧵Just last month, @direkt36 reported that Hungary's parliament had years ago allowed the purchase of Pegasus without a public procurement process.

The spyware was then used to monitor journalists, politicians & more. buff.ly/3Emrv1t @AndrasSzab @panyiszabolcs @andraspe

🧵#PegasusProject, initially published by 17 media orgs & coordinated by @FbdnStories in partnership w/ @amnesty, revealed >50,000 potential victims of Pegasus spyware, including journalists & heads of state.

Here's the impact of the investigation so far. buff.ly/3ovgWzX

🧵How can journalists find out what particular technologies their governments are buying in the shadowy surveillance market?

Here are tips & techniques to help determine governmental abuse of digital tools: buff.ly/3i7cCDI @accessnow @CarnegieEndow @EFF

🧵The 80 reporters who worked on the #PegasusProject had to quarantine their cellphones to avoid compromising the investigation that exposed digital spying by 11 governments.

Here are tips on how to report on such spyware: buff.ly/3BCLK73 @jsrailton @laurentrichard0

🧵At least 4 corruption reporters whose cases @pressfreedom has been tracking appeared in the #PegasusProject as possible spyware victims.

It suggests govts are willing to use controversial tech to silence corruption journalism. buff.ly/2XfhNuk @Paulwaf @carreondet