• The Guardian (UK), Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:28 PM

Facebook is threatening to sue The Daily Mail (UK) for damages after the British tabloid claimed that 14-year-old girls who create profiles on the site could be approached "within seconds" by older men who "wanted to perform a sex act" in front of them. The paper has since apologized in print and online for the error.

But, according to Facebook, the paper didn't act fast enough to change the story's headline online. The top social site, which has 23 million users in the UK alone, is presently looking into the "brand damage that has been done," according to a company spokesperson. Meanwhile, the story's author claims he was using a social network other than Facebook, and that editors at the paper are to blame for working Facebook into the story.

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