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The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Google has decided to cut its ads from Orkut as a result of “complaints in Brazil about offensive content.” A Brazilian nonprofit group, SaferNet, “has alleged that Orkut contains child pornography and other illegal content on some users’ pages.” Apparently Facebook is having similar issues but with sex predators. Additionally, Facebook had advertisers (Vodafone, Orange and Virgin) pull their advertisements after they appeared next to a group for the British National Party.

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