LONDON — GCHQ harvested emails to and from some of the biggest media organisations on both sides of the Atlantic, according to a new Guardian report.
Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, Le Monde, the Sun, the New York Times and the Washington Post were saved onto the intelligence agency's servers as part of bulk surveillance of electronic communications, analysis of documents released by Edward Snowden has revealed.
While some of the emails were mass-produced PR messages, many included conversations between reporters and editors discussing stories. It's not known if certain journalists were targeted, but other documents released by Snowden show that investigative journalists were listed alongside terrorists and hackers as a threat. Read more...
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