Within minutes of the first reports that a Malaysia Airlines plane had crashed over eastern Ukraine Thursday, Mashable had live coverage up and running. Its real-time news staff in New York was updating the post with videos from the scene and carefully sourced information culled from social media and other outlets; its own social accounts, including its meant-for-breaking-news @MashableLive, were busy pushing out information.
The Russian Government’s 7,000 Wikipedia Edits
Global Voices Online by Kevin Rothrock
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When it comes to Wikipedia, the Russian government’s computers are busy bees. Over the past ten years, IP addresses belonging to various Russian state agencies are responsible for almost 7,000 anonymous edits to articles on Wikipedia’s
Mass surveillance post-Snowden: an unbalanced debate
open Democracy News Analysis – by Claude Moraes
People are entitled to privacy on the Internet just as they have a right to privacy in all other areas of their lives. Why has there been no debate about this?
EU wants Google to extend “right to be forgotten” to global users
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