[7] He received the 2019 Gerald Leb Award for Investigative reporting for his contributions to the series "Facebook, Disinformation and Privacy".

[10] The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and killed in 2002 in Pakistan, had been labeled a Jewish spy similarly by some members of the Pakistani media before his death.

Twenty-one editors from the world's major international news organizations also signed a letter of protest, calling the article's accusation "unsubstantiated" and criticizing it for compromising Rosenberg's security.

[11] In August 2014, Rosenberg was barred from leaving Afghanistan and interrogated by the country's attorney general after writing a story about how senior Afghan security officials were considering whether to stage what would, in essence, amount to a coup because of a mounting political crisis.

"[14] On March 9, 2022, Project Veritas released an undercover video showing Rosenberg talking about his colleagues exaggerating the events of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.