El Faro, a legendary news publication in El Salvador, reeled when they discovered most of their journalists’ phones had been hacked using the spyware, Pegasus. The maker of the spyware, NSO Group, is now being sued by the paper’s staff, including an American journalist who was hacked, in US court. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Ronan Farrow, who reported the story for The New Yorker.
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