Nine of Britain's biggest news organisations have issued a joint warning to MPs about the potential "chilling effect" of a planned law forcing online archive news stories to be removed in the run-up to a criminal trial. Clauses 37 and 38 of the new Criminal Justice and Courts Bill introduce new powers which will allow the Attorney General and the courts to require owners of online news archives to remove material which it is argued might prejudice upcoming proceedings.

New research suggests that more than half of UK businesses deem their email strategy 'basic' or 'non-existent' despite the expanding consumer-driven demand for mobile optimised content. The report, from Econsultancy and Adestra, found that 39% of businesses confessed to having a basic email strategy and a further 22% said their strategy was non-existent - even though many of the participating businesses noted that more than 50% of their email marketing messages are opened via mobile devices.

DC Thomson Marketing Manager Cathy Frossard said, "This is the first time we've sampled The Beano as widely as this and it's great to be doing so with such a prominent national title. The Mail on Sunday will open The Beano up to a wide-ranging audience and we're hoping that, with over 1.5 million copies of The Beano going out with the title, we'll reach new readers."

The BBC has launched instant messaging platforms on Whatsapp and WeChat to hear what voters across India have to say during the country's election campaign. BBC News India will receive user-generated content directly from Indian voters while also distributing BBC coverage of the election including videos, special graphics and interview clips on BBC World News, bbc.com and BBC World Service.

Facebook dished out $1.5m to 330 researchers from across the world as part of its bug bounty programme last year. The average reward for fixing a bug in Facebook's code amounted to $2,204, and hackers from Russia and Brazil discovered Facebook's most critical security threats, confirmed the social network. Each submitted 38 and 53 bugs respectively and received $150,518 and $200,976 in rewards from Facebook.

Documents show that the British are particularly aggressive and eager in this regard, and formally shared their methods with their U.S. counterparts. One previously undisclosed top-secret document - prepared by GCHQ for the 2010 annual "SIGDEV" gathering of the "Five Eyes" surveillance alliance comprising the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S. - explicitly discusses ways to exploit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media as secret platforms for propaganda.

Having been available for a year through the Twitter partnership system, Titter is now rolling out the opportunity to 'pin' tweets to the top of a user's stream for free. Being tested with high-profile users, such as politicians and musicians, the system will allow a tweet to be 'pinned' to the top of a stream for however long is wanted.

The BBC is using private mobile messaging apps to engage with their audience in India around this year's presidential elections, the first phase of which begins on Monday. Starting Friday, BBC News India is sending updates to users of WeChat and WhatsApp to distribute BBC content, engage with the audience and source user-generated content (UGC).

Online gaming publisher Spil Games has launched a new approach to how video ads are presented to players while playing online games. The new solution uses Spil Games' engaged audience of close to 200 million active monthly. Here is what the video ad solution will offer.

On Thursday Turkey lifted its ban on Twitter and on Friday the same looked set to happen regarding YouTube - sort of. According to reports, an Ankara court decided that blocking the whole of YouTube was overdoing it; the court said only 15 contentious videos should remain blocked. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly said he would grudgingly comply.