On one side, a media outlet controversial for misleading readers, running sleazy ads and misappropriating private letters. On the other, a British tabloid. Facebook is in a big teen-sex-scandal feud with the Daily Mail — ironically, its old-media doppelgänger. The Daily Mail Wednesday reported that its correspondent posed as a 14-year-old on Facebook and was solicited for internet sex by older men "within 90 seconds" of setting up n account. It turns out the correspondent was using a different social network , and purportedly told Daily Mail editors as much, repeatedly, before publication. Whoops. Facebook is threatening to sue, despite ...
Valleywag - Gawker
1 day, 2 hours ago - 10:28 a.m. Thursday 11th March 2010 PST
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