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Independent: Daily Mail apologises for Facebook underage sex claims

Thursday, 11 March 2010, 13:03

"The Daily Mail has today published an embarrassing apology after publishing an article claiming that a criminologist posing as a teenage girl on Facebook was inundated with contacts from men seeking sexual favours. … in today’s newspaper the Mail admits that Williams-Thomas was not using Facebook at all, but an entirely different and so far unspecified social networking site."

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 Saturday, 9 June 2007, 10:18 0

A Jason Fry article in the Wall Street Journal highlights that digital immigrants’ worries about young people’s self-exposure on social media sites is a case of "modernist fears of postmodern behaviour".