Pegasus Project: Inside Morocco's spying machine
Tailing targets, monitoring internet cafés and deploying spyware: in recent years, Morocco has used a vast surveillance arsenal against journalists and government critics.
Five years after the publication of the Pegasus Project, Forbidden Stories and its 13 media partners, with technical support from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, are revealing new findings about Pegasus, the world-renowned spyware.
Based on previously unpublished documents and first-hand testimony, we tell for the first time the inside story of a campaign of repression orchestrated by Morocco’s domestic intelligence service.
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