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Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries.
Last year, Wired first reported that Paragon’s U.S. subsidiary had signed a contract worth $2 million with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the company did not comment at the time. Cancellato is the director of news website Fanpage.it, which published an investigation last year on the “Gioventù Meloniana,” the youth wing of the Fratelli d’Italia party, led by current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has been at the head of the Italian government since 2022. Thanks to undercover video recordings of members of the “Gioventù Meloniana,” Fanpage showed that a number of them made racist and antisemitic remarks, used the N-word, and chanted Nazi and pro-Italian dictator Benito Mussolini slogans.
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