Facebook Threatens To Sue Daily Mail Over Story On Sexual Predators
Facebook is considering preparing a lawsuit against the Daily Mail after the publication ran an article originally titled “I posed as a girl of 14 on Facebook. What followed will sicken you.” which incorrectly named Facebook as the social networking site used by its writer and after editors lagged in correcting both the article’s title and URL. [Changes to both the article’s title and URL have since been made.]
The article’s author, a retired policeman-turned-criminologist named Mark Williams-Thomas who also works as a presenter on the popular series To Catch a Predator, insists the mention of “Facebook” in both the article’s title and URL was an editorial decision made even after he explained that he had used an entirely different social networking site to perform the research on which his article was based.
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