(José Niño, Headline USA) A Virginia federal judge has denied a motion to force a journalist to disclose his tax info and a trove of information related to all the electronic devices he’s used over the last five years.
The sweeping request came from Yaacov Apelbaum, a former Israel Defense Forces intelligence officer and cybersecurity executive who founded the firm XRVision. Apelbaum sued independent journalist Jordan Arthur Bloom for characterizing him as “an Israeli spy” in a January 2024 Substack article about his role in analyzing Hunter Biden’s laptop data before the 2020 election.
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