Documents reveal how Israel seized files, suppressed information related to WhatsApp’s lawsuit against Pegasus spyware vendor NSO
- Amid a lawsuit pitting WhatsApp against the Israeli company NSO, the state of Israel ordered documents to be seized from the offices of the Pegasus spyware vendor
- Israel also emitted a gag order on the seizure to prevent further dissemination of the information
- Leaked files from the Israeli Ministry of Justice accessed by Forbidden Stories suggest that the MoJ pushed for language in NSO court filings to be modified
