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UK press watchdog seeks to regulate journalists on Twitter
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Does retweeting make you an activist or a slacktivist?
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The story of the Martin Luther King ‘quote’
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Facebook could add video calls with possible Skype acquisition
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Angry Birds creates a flap at this year’s Webbys
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Internet freedom: South Africa doing poorly
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Man ‘unwittingly’ gives the world a front row seat to Bin Laden’s death
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