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Facebook Removes 5,500 Sex Offenders From Its Site

By Corey Rayburnyung

After MySpace removed 90,000 sex offenders from its website, Facebook has followed by removing more than 5,500 sex offenders' profiles. From the Associated Press:Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said Thursday.Richard Blumenthal said the world's largest social networking site, which claims to have more than 175 million active members, reported to his office that 5,585 convicted sex offenders were found on the Web site and removed between May 1, 2008, and Jan. 31, 2009."The message in this number is Facebook has an equal stake in solving this problem of protecting children," said Blumenthal, who along with North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has led an effort remove sex offenders from the social networking Web sites...continue to full post

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