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16 May 2011updated 05 Oct 2023 8:35am

Who is using whom?

How social media can be exploited by mainstream media.

By David Allen Green

Back in October 2010, the Guardian website published a rather curious and precisely worded post stating it had been gagged from publishing a parliamentary question. Within minutes, Twitter users had decoded this cryptic piece and identified one of the parties involved as Trafigura.

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