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Rob Price / Business Insider:
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops — Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
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BBC:
Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack, services disrupted for several hours — ‘Technical issue’ hits BBC websites — “Technical issues” made the BBC's websites intermittently unavailable on Thursday morning. — The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Crowdfunded ‘Star Trek’ Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS — ‘Axanar’ aims to be a professional-quality prequel and has raised more than $1 million. — For decades, Paramount and CBS have tolerated and even encouraged fans of the Star Trek franchise to use their imagination at will …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post drops progressive columnist Harold Meyerson, claiming poor social media metrics and excessive discussion of two topics — Washington Post Claims It Dropped A Progressive Columnist Because Of Poor Readership. Readers Aren't Happy. — Bernie Sanders says the columnist's “insights will be sorely missed.”
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Agence France-Presse:
Two Bangladeshi students sentenced to death over blogger murder — A Bangladesh court sentenced two students to death on Thursday for the 2013 murder of a secular blogger, delivering the first convictions over a series of brutal killings that have rocked the Muslim-majority nation.
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Brian Rohan / Associated Press:
Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear — Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down — BEIRUT (AP) — Social media site Facebook says a program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians has been shut down.
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New York Times:
Egyptian authorities shut down art gallery and raided an independent publishing house, raising concerns about continued free speech issues
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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback — Early next month, Pablo Sierra is opening a used bookstore in Northwest Washington — an unlikely bet in the digital age made even more inconceivable, given that his only experience with books is reading them.
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Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
Facebook tests multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed, also tests wider rollout of Marketplace feature with its own tab — Facebook is testing multiple news feeds on mobile — Facebook is testing multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed.
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Allison Lampert / Reuters:
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's health deteriorating, wife says — Imprisoned Saudi blogger's health deteriorating, wife says — Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, recent recipient of a prestigious European human rights award, has suffered fainting spells and deteriorating health …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
The Atlantic's “What ISIS Really Wants” held readers' attention the longest among 2015 stories from publications using Chartbeat — The best-read digital story of 2015? It's The Atlantic's ‘What ISIS Really Wants.’ — Metrics now allow a fairly exact measure of which stories attract …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Nexstar to finalize new offer for Media General, at about $2.2B, or $17.50 per share, as soon as Thursday — Nexstar Said to Finalize Media General Proposal Soon as Thursday — Offer would trigger at least 4-day window for Meredith counter — Nexstar tapping three banks for $4.5 billion in debt financing
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Agence France-Presse:
Charlie Hebdo to release million copies of special issue one year after attack — Satirical magazine to release double issue on 7 January to mark a year since 12 people were killed in jihadi killings on its Paris office — French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday …
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