The magazine hailed Khashoggi, who was critical of the Saudi regime and is believed to have been killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, for daring “to disagree with his country’s government.”

"His death laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-U.S. alliance and — in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links — the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?" Karl Vick wrote in Time's cover story.