Facebook Considers Suing Daily Mail Over Slanderous Article

Facebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail UK for inaccurately publishing a piece about Facebook on Wednesday, according to the Guardian. Daily Mail’s article claimed that whenever a “14 year old girl” joins Facebook she is approached by older men within seconds, who want to perform a “sex act in front of them”.

The article was written by Mark Williams-Thomas, who is an ex-policeman and is now working as a criminologist. However Thomas insists that his article was regarding another social network – whose name has not been disclosed, and that the editors of Daily Mail introduced Facebook in his article.