Pegasus

Pegasus (2023) follows the thrilling, worldwide investigation into one of the most powerful and insidious pieces of cyber surveillance software known to date. Beginning with a massive data leak to a small, independent news outlet, it tells the story of how Pegasus came to be, the hundreds of innocent individuals who have had their privacy taken away by it, and the global team of reporters and editors who risked everything to bring the story to light.

• Followers of the Pegasus Project and other cyber security international bombshells like the Panama Papers, or Wikileaks.
• Fans of investigative journalism who want to know the stories behind the reports that shake the world.
• Anyone who owns a phone and wants to know just how fragile their privacy really is.

Laurent Richard is a French journalist and cofounder of Forbidden Stories, an organization dedicated to continuing and publishing the work of other journalists who have been murdered, jailed, or threatened. He has been conducting international investigations for over 20 years, and in 2018 he was named “European Journalist of the Year” at the Prix Europa in Berlin.

Sandrine Rigaud is a French journalist and editor of Forbidden Stories. Apart from her work on the “Pegasus Project,” she has also published the “Cartel Project,” a collaboration to finish the investigation of a murdered Mexican journalist. She has reported from all over the world, including Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Qatar, and Bangladesh.