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New spotlight on Zoom meetings… A journalist for the Financial Times is said to have spied on the meetings of The Independent and the Evening Standard , according to information from The Independent , relayed by Les Echos on  Tuesday.

These were meetings during which announcements of wage cuts or partial unemployment measures were made to employees, consequences of the coronavirus crisis. This information was then published in the Financial Times in articles signed by Mark Di Stefano, a technology and media specialist for the British daily.

An investigation opened by the "Financial Times"

According to an investigation by The Independent , the reporter used a registered account with his business address to connect to the meeting on Zoom. And this address would have disappeared once spotted before turning into an anonymous account, linked to the phone number of the same journalist. Mark Di Stefano would have done the same with the Evening Standard . In his articles, he cited sources who attended the meetings.

According to Les Echos , the Financial Times opened an investigation. The newspaper did not announce the suspension of its journalist.

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