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AP sues feds over fake news story | TheHill

29.8.15

AP sues feds over fake news story | TheHill: “Yet while the public clearly has a strong, compelling interest in knowing more about the FBI’s use of this tactic, the FBI seems determined to withhold that information,” she added. “We have been left with no choice but to look to the court for relief."

Last October, federal documents revealed that an FBI agent had pretended to be an AP reporter in order to target a teenager suspected of making bomb threats to a local high school in 2007. The agent fabricated a draft of an AP story and placed it on a website made to look like The Seattle Times in order to plant malicious software on the suspect’s computer.

The agent sent the fake story headlined “Bomb threat at high school downplayed by local police department” to the suspect’s Myspace account.


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