No Yahoo! meeting in Iran
Posted October 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor
4 Comments / Filed in: Yahoo! For Good
This morning, ZDNet.com ran a story that made misleading and incorrect statements about Yahoo! and Iran. It alleged — quoting information from a single source — that Yahoo! representatives met with Iranian authorities last week after Yahoo! was blocked in Iran and agreed to disclose data on hundreds of thousands of users.
The claims are false. Neither Yahoo! nor any Yahoo! representative has met with or communicated with Iranian officials regarding the matters referenced in the article, and Yahoo! has not disclosed user data to the Iranian government. ZDNet has since called the report unreliable, but we’re disappointed we weren’t given a chance to weigh in before the story was published.
You can read more about the situation on our Business & Human Rights Program blog.
UPDATE: ZDNet retracted its story this evening.
Nicki Dugan
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valves manufacturer | October 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
It’s incorrect statements, I won’t believe it.
simplezen | October 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Yahoo needs to take legal action against ZDNet. This is simply unacceptable.
ZDNet will need to fix this mess internally and fire the blogger who wrote the original report. The apology by ZDNet’s editor in chief didn’t sound too sincere. Perhaps Journalism 101 is not the only thing needed at ZDNet. Sign ‘em all up for Apology 101 as well!
babak | October 11th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Remember Nokia denied it first as well, till major news papers picked it up…of course Nokia is going to deny it, what did you expect?
Chrıs Anton | October 12th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thanky Nice Post
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