Journalist and social media guru Matthew Keys, 29, was sentenced to two years in federal prison on charges of participating in a computer hacking that led to the alteration of an article on the Los Angeles Times website in 2010.

U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller handed down the sentence at a hearing in Sacramento, California, based on courtroom testimony and a tweet from Keys himself. Last month, prosecutors asked the judge to impose a 5-year sentence, while some have asked for 7 years or more! Defense attorneys have asked for probation. Mueller has asked Keys to report to prison on June 15, but the journalist tweeted that his lawyers plan to ask for him to be allowed to remain free pending an appeal.

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Keys, who has worked for two television stations and later as a social media editor at Reuters, became involved online with the hacker group Anonymous after a fight with his employer. He was working for a television station owned by Tribune Co. at the time, and prosecutors say the journalist posted Tribune login information on a hackers forum. A story on the Los Angeles Times website was soon vandalized.

The journalist is expected to argue that electronic fraud and the act of abuse do not apply in cases where there is no intent to cause actual harm in a computing matter and that the process for calculating the cost of such damages is unreasonable.

"We will not only work to overturn the court's decision, but we will try to change this absurd law," Keys tweeted after his conviction was announced!

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