A social media journalist is facing 25 years in prison for helping hackers get into the LA Times website. Matthew Keys was an employee for Reuters and assisted the group Anonymous in “defacing” the newspaper’s website. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“Matthew Keys, the Twitter power user who made a name for himself as the former deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been found guilty of three criminal counts in federal court. He faces 25 years in prison for facilitating the defacement of the LA Times’ website.

Keys was indicted in 2013 after being accused of providing Anonymous (remember them?) with login credentials for the Tribune Company, and encouraging them to “fuck shit up.”