Reuters held on to a report about former congressman Beto O’Rourke and his participation in a hacking group as a teenager until after the 2018 Senate race in Texas, which he lost to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

O’Rourke, now 46, announced Thursday he’s running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. A day later, Reuters reported he was a member of a computer hacking group called the Cult of the Dead Cow and authored a series of writings under the name “Psychedelic Warlord.”

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