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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:38 pm 
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Apparently, Facebook have threatened to sue over this article.

Mail have been frantically removing all references to Facebook throughout the day and have now tacked a 'clarification' on at the end:

In an earlier version of this article, we wrongly stated that the criminologist had conducted an experiment into social networking sites by posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook with the result that he quickly attracted sexually motivated messages. In fact he had used a different social networking site for this exercise. We are happy to set the record straight.


Facebook say the Mail knew it wasn't their site when they went to press and yet went with it anyway. If you can believe the Mail doing such a thing...


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:43 pm 
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's made my year! It's about time the DM pissed on someone who can punch back. I sincerely hope Facebook push this forward.

Does this mean the agenda will be abandoned, and therefore the end of this thread? Or will this just piss off the bile-mongers even more?

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:50 pm 
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The Mail will sulk quietly for a while, all the time developing an ever more bitter and irrational grudge. When the time is right (maybe a year later) expect a continual stream of snide but subtly unactionable articles.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:56 pm 
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Forgot to add a link to a website that's been tracking the story:
www.globaldashboard.org/2010/03/10/daily-mail-facebook/

But it seems to have gone down at the moment.

It said that when the first draft was sent to the quoted 'expert', he asked them to remove all references to Facebook but they decided not to.

Although it took most of the day for the Mail to post a clarification, it's funny how quickly that appeared, comparatively, when a wealthy company threatens legal action.

Somehow they forget to act that quick when dealing with members of the public who complain.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:01 pm 
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Facebook - reckoned to be worth between $3 and $5 billion dollars...
Could eat the Mail for a snack.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:28 am 
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They've changed the text this morning so it describes a generic social networking site and not specifically Facebook. They haven't changed the headline though - FAIL

Edit: Oops, being half asleep I hadn't noticed this had already been mentioned. EPIC FAIL


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:06 pm 
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Having had a number of comments yesterday accusing them outright of lying, they're moderating them today. What a surprise.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:49 pm 
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Abernathy wrote:


Funnily enough I'd just read that article myself. She's only saying what we do here all the time about lunkheaded right-wing facebook groups, so we can't really complain.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:55 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:12 pm 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/11/facebook-daily-mail

The guardian report on the situation. Looks like DM are scrambling to make all changes as requested by Facebook now :)

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The paper apologised in print today and online yesterday for the error, which the author of the piece, Mark Williams-Thomas, insisted had been introduced by editors at the paper despite being told it was wrong.


That says it all really. Even the author of the article comes out and says they knew it was wrong but went with it anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:53 pm 
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By all accounts Facebook tried to post comments on the story, but they never appeared. How very strange...

Amongst so many other things the Mail doesn't understand the First Rule of Holes.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:46 pm 
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The Indy is also carrying this story now on the front of it's website. From the sounds of it, Facebook are still pretty likely to take legal action considering the extent to which the story was smeared all over the print edition (front page, followed by an interior double-spread).

Of course nothing about this story is anything even approaching a surprise to most of us, but here's hoping it opens some eyes of the general public to the hateful innuendo this rag has been discharging for decades.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:57 pm 
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Mind you, I bet I know the 'well-known' social networking site that the cop did use.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
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It's also on the BBC site :lol:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters ... _mail.html

with some excellent comments.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Facebook
PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:56 pm 
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I'd have thought Williams-Thomas has a good claim against the Mail, if he finds an enterprising no win no fee libel lawyer: they've effectively portrayed him as someone who lied about the website he went onto, and an idiot as well.


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