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The News Agency Reuters fires its deputy social media editor Matthew Keys on Monday after he was accused of conspiring with Anonymous Hackers Group to deface a website which is owned by his former employer, The Tribune Company.
Matthew Tweeted on Monday , “Just got off the phone. Reuters has fired me, effective today. Our union will be filing a grievance. More soon,” after that a message also retweeted by him that he was not fired for 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.
“With a focus on four different video streams, several Twitter lists and, yes, dispatch audio, it slipped by me,” Keys wrote. “But once I became aware of it, I stopped. In fact — having been awake well over 24 hours, with 10 of them covering the overnight event — I closed the computer and went to bed.”
“We have a responsibility to tell a story from all sides. At the same time, we should be mindful of the health and safety of the subjects we cover. When someone makes a reasonable request for us to not do something, we should. Even if it was four hours later, when I learned of the request (by way of CBS), I did.”
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Source– RawStory
