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Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account
After the Associated Press tweeted, "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured," it literally took only seconds for people to debunk the bomb scare. from here in the WH basement, this acct seems hacked RT @ ap Read...
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Tue, Apr 04 2013 12:45 PM
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Rick Sanchez wages flame war against Muslim Brotherhood Twitter feed
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo's Twitter feed disappeared for about an hour today following an online sparring match with a feed operated by the office of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy over Jon Stewart's impassioned defense of Egyptian satirist...
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What happened in Wenzhou?
The Saturday night train crash in eastern China that killed around 40 and injured around 200 ( different reports give different figures) has provoked a firestorm reaction on the Chinese internet. A number of locals have accused the Chinese government...
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Zuckerberg? Really?
Judging by my Twitter feed, Time has managed to tick off the entire Internet in selecting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as its " person of the year " -- the youngest to earn the title since Charles Lindbergh . The magazine's rationale...
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Wed, Dec 12 2010 6:34 AM
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Twitter to the rescue
A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan fooled his abductors with an unlikely source: Twitter. Kosuke Tsuneoka's captors asked him last Friday to show them how to use their new Nokia mobile phones, and after activating the devices Tsuneoka...
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Wed, Sep 09 2010 12:52 PM
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Blog del Narco gets the drug war scoop
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Score another one for new media: an anonymous, twenty-something blogger has become Mexico's go-to for information on the country's deadly drug war. Blog del Narco , launched...
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Andrew Sullivan vs. TNR: Please shoot me now
I was expecting fireworks after reading Leon Wieseltier's 4,250-word attack piece on blogger and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan , and the Internet did not disappoint. Here's the quick and dirty summary: Wieseltier uses a W.H. Auden...
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Tue, Feb 02 2010 6:48 PM
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The year in take-downs
The year's best takedowns, journalistic or otherwise. Put yours in the comments. 10. Glenn Greenwald on Jeffrey Rosen's profile of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in The New Republic : "[Rosen's] smear of Sonia Sotomayor's intellect...
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Wed, Dec 12 2009 4:58 PM
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The Taliban's YouTube channel
Danger Room reports that the Taliban have finally embraced online video sharing and launched Istiqlal Media, an official YouTube channel. Terrorist media expert Evan Kohlman comments: “The Taliban have really been latecomers to the world of online video...
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Blogging British diplomat starts undiplomatic row in Thailand
PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP It seemed like a good idea at the time, no doubt. Ian Proud, the head of the political section at the British Embassy in Thailand, agreed to guest-blog for The Nation , an English-language daily in Bangkok. He got more than...
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