Matthew Keys, 26, the current deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to hack the website of the Tribune Company. (Read the indictment.) The alleged conduct occurred more than two years ago, apparently before he began working for Reuters, and not long after being fired from a Tribune Company TV station in California, where he was a web producer.
The charges are serious and so are the potential penalties, including jail time. In keeping with his role as a social media editor for a major news organizations, Keys is active on Twitter and interacts frequently with other journalists outside of Reuters. So he’s well-known, at least virtually, among social-media-savvy journalists. More soon …
