Reuters Fires Editor Accused Of Aiding ‘Anonymous’ Hackers

[Purveyor]

The news agency Reuters on Monday reportedly fired its deputy social media editor after he was accused of conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to deface a website owned by his former employer, the Tribune Company.

“Just got off the phone. Reuters has fired me, effective today. Our union will be filing a grievance. More soon,” Matthew Keys tweeted on Monday.

Keys also retweeted a message from Anthony Pompliano stating that the firing had not been related to the Anonymous case.

During the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last week, Keys had been criticized for publishing unverified information from police scanners.

In a post to Facebook on Sunday night, he defended himself by saying that he had not seen calls by the Boston Police Department asking people to not to post details from police scanners.

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[randome]

1. Everybody dreams of being a spy. How exciting!

But it sounds like there's more to the firing than the Anonymous stuff.

[pinto]

2. He was deputy social media editor and didn't see the call from BPD to not post scanner info?

That's a little hard to buy.

[Purveyor]

3. There was awesome 'play-by-play' of the scanner traffic here on DU. eom