Fired Reuters Social Media Editor Says He's Being Threatened

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By Adam Martin
Daily Intelligencer
April 22, 2013

Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor suspended last 
month after he was indicted for allegedly helping Anonymous take over 
the Los Angeles Times website, learned on Monday the company had fired 
him. But Reuters did not fire Keys for his alleged involvement with 
Anonymous, he said. Rather, it fired him for tweeting police scanner 
traffic during the Boston Marathon bombing suspects' arrest last week, 
on a stream that identified him as a Reuters employee. Keys and the 
Newspaper Guild of New York have said he will contest the firing. But 
now Keys says he's been receiving threats, and they're worded much like 
the foreboding missives Anonymous likes to toss around.

Keys' account of his conversation with Reuters can be found on his 
Tumblr. He told Politico's Dylan Byers that his indictment didn't come 
up during that phone call but that "they did, however, repeatedly make 
mention that I had been suspended." His conclusion: "I assume they were 
looking for an out."

Now that Keys has been cut loose, choruses of both criticism and support 
have found him on (where else?) Twitter. But the private messages Keys 
has been getting have been more aggressive, if also a bit cryptic. He 
tweeted on Monday night that he'd turned his phone off because he'd been 
receiving threatening calls. Keys declined to talk about the calls and 
messages with Daily Intelligencer, but he did post a couple screenshots 
of texts to his Twitter stream.

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