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How to protect your Facebook privacy – or delete yourself completely

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Fitch maintains Pakistan credit rating at ‘B’, warns of medium-term risk

FitchhasmaintainedPakistan’screditratingat‘B’withstableoutlook,andwarnedofmedium-termrisksduetoslidingforeignexchangereservesandwideningcurrentaccountdeficitsin

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Twitter under fire after suspending Egyptian journalist Wael Abbas

TwitterhasfacedcriticismaftertheaccountofaprominentEgyptianjournalistandcampaignerwassuspended.WaelAbbaswroteonFacebookthatTwitterhadsent“anemailsayingmyaccount

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Twitter suspends white nationalists as it enforces new rules

Twittersuspendedtheaccountsofwell-knownwhitenationalistsMonday,movingswiftlytoenforceitsnewrulesaimedatreducingwhatitdeemsabusivecontent.Theaccountoffar-rightgr

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Twitter brings in new rules to reduce hateful content

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Twitter: Suspension of New York Times account was human error

Twitterhasfumbledyetagain.Overtheweekend,theplatformtemporarilylockedaNewYorkTimesaccountforviolatingitsruleagainsthatefulconduct,butthetweetinquestion,areporto

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Twitter can’t separate verification from validation

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For 11 minutes, Donald Trump's Twitter ceased to exist

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Trump's lawyers: Courts have no say over his Twitter feed

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Facebook closes street artist’s page after anti-Zuck posters

FacebookhasallegedlyshutdownanaccountbelongingtoaconservativestreetartistafterhedisparagedFacebookCEOMarkZuckerberg'srumoredpresidentialaspirationswithaprofanit

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China: Thumbs up for man who quietly lent wheelchair user hand

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If Palace Museum tap into the beauty market

Cultural and creative products of the Palace Museum are back into the public spotlight with an even greater market potential. This spring, an article titled What if the Palace Museum enters the cosmetic world became a hit on Weibo, a micro blog.

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China's top art institution says goodbye to graduates in style

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IS-linked propaganda outlet moves to Instagram

Apropagandaarmoftheso-calledIslamicStategroup(IS)hasforthefirsttimesetupanaccountonInstagram.Theoutlet,calledNashirNewsAgency,promotedthenewInstagramaccountviai

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Facebook says government requests for account data rise 27 per cent

Facebook said on Wednesday (Dec 21) that government requests for user account data rose 27 per cent in the first half of 2016 compared to the second half of last year, with US law enforcement agencies topping the list.

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Japan posts current account surplus for 25th straight month in July

​Japan logged a current account surplus in July for the 25th straight month, owing to the yen's appreciation and lower costs for crude oil imports, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.

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Top 10 China's e-commerce celebrities with most commercial value

China's internet celebrity sector's output value this year is expected to reach 58 billion yuan ($8.7 billion), surpassing China's box office and equal to China's largest retailer Bailian Group's annual sales last year, according to a report by Shanghai-based enterprise data aggregator CBNData.