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Hacking: Truth or Treason?

The CIA believes Russia deliberately hacked into Democratic Party accounts in order to steal emails that might discredit Hillary Clinton. But should journalists feel free to report

Hacking is rarely out of the news. The idea that the Russians might try to steal emails to discredit a candidate in an American election would have seemed preposterous a decade ago - now it's what intelligence services think actually happened. But should journalists feel free to report on the contents of stolen material? In Hacking: Truth or Treason, Ian Katz talks to the editor of The New York Times.

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Fri 20 Jan 2017 09:00GMT

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