Facebook Sued for Private Cyberbully Group

Cyberbullying is nothing new on the web, especially when it comes to social networks. But one Oceonside teenager is fighting back, suing not only four former high school classmates and their parents, but Facebook as well. According to Newsday, Denise Finkel has brought this cyberbullying case, filed in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, for $3 million. Finkel claims that she was cyberbullied in a private forum on Facebook.

Now a student at the University at Albany, Finkel has named four former classmates as the bullies that created a private group on Facebook with the intention of bashing on Finkel claiming that she participated in bestiality as well as contracted AIDS.

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