Big Tech’s hypocrisy on “hacked materials”

Leaked documents are often necessary to expose wrongdoing in powerful institutions and they have been accepted as a tenet of modern journalism for decades.

The New York Times’ reporting on the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the secret actions of the US government during the Vietnam War, and The Guardian’s reporting on whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaked documents, which revealed numerous global surveillance programs, are two of many bombshell stories which have relied on leaked documents.