Twitter Lifts Veil on Documents Otherwise Kept Secret

After prevailing in a legal fight over the publication of secret documents, the editor of The Guardian in London, Alan Rusbridger, wrote that "the Twittersphere blew away conventional efforts to buy silence," as a headline on his column put it. Last month, a British judge ruled that material obtained by Guardian journalists about a multinational corporation had to be kept secret.

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