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Twitter to let publishers charge users per article read

Elon Musk announced recently that Twitter will allow media publishers to charge users per-article basis with one click. He called it a win for both the public and media organisations. To be rolled out in May, the feature will enable users who haven't signed up for the monthly subscription "to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article ”. Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article .… — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2023 Just this Friday, Musk announced that Twitter will partake in a 10% cut after the first year of subscriptions, which would include long-form text and hours-long video. Read: Twitter down for thousands of users The Twitter CEO has been striving to bring rev...

Rights group: China sentences 2 lawyers on 'farcical' charge

A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison BEIJING -- Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison, Human Rights Watch said Monday, the latest in a crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on its critics. The rights group said Xu Zhiyong, 50, was sentenced to 14 years and Ding Jiaxi, 55, was given 12 years in prison under the vague charge of “subversion of state power.” Such proceedings are conducted under intense secrecy. “The cruelly farcical convictions and sentence s meted out to Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi show President Xi Jinping’s unstinting hostility towards peaceful activism,” Yaqiu Wang, the group ’s senior China researcher, was quoted as saying in a news release. The court in Shandong province, south of the capital Beijing, did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation. Xu and Ding are among a generation of Chinese who held out hope that t...