After Reality Winner’s Arrest, Media Asks: Did ‘Intercept’ Expose a Source? – The New York Times

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After Reality Winner’s Arrest, Media Asks: Did ‘Intercept’ Expose a Source?

Some reporters expressed worries about a potential chilling effect on sources in the wake of a case in which a woman was accused of sending a document to The Intercept.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/business/media/intercept-reality-winner-russia-trump-leak.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Sharing an original document when asking questions of government officials, as The Intercept appears to have done, can expose metadata and high-tech watermarks that may reveal a leaker’s identity. And an affidavit asserts that The Intercept revealed to a second contractor that the document was mailed from Augusta, Ga., where Ms. Winner resides.