PC World: The ZDnet/Iran saga is ‘a cautionary Web 2.0 tale’
October 12th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Press freedom and ethics, Social media and blogging
PC World, among others, takes a look at ZDnet’s handling of serious allegations made against Yahoo – that the company had handed over account information for 200,000 Iranian bloggers to the Iranian government. Yahoo denied the claims and ZDNet has retracted the story in full, the Committe to Protect Bloggers reports.
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