Facebook Could Face Fraud Charge, Cuomo Says
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The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said yesterday.
“We expect an immediate correction eliminating the dangers exposed by our investigation,” the spokesman, Jeffrey Lerner, said. Mr. Cuomo announced last week that he had subpoenaed Facebook after he said the company did not respond to “many” complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as 12- to 14-year-olds on the site. Officials from Mr. Cuomo’s office discussed the issue by phone and fax with Facebook on Friday after they said Facebook took three days to answer calls and e-mails from state investigators.
