Centre rejects Amnesty report claiming ‘Pegasus used to target 2 journalists’

Following a damning investigation by Amnesty International’s Security Lab that two Indian journalists were among those whose iPhones were targeted with Israeli surveillance spyware Pegasus, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar called the findings “half facts, fully embellished”.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Chandrasekhar rebutted the claims saying that the report was “terrible story telling”, further adding that his response and that of the Ministry has been clear that “it is for Apple to explain if their devices are vulnerable and what triggered these notifications”.