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Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages

Posted by Unknown on from the get-off-my-lawn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Former diplomat to Belgium and the European Union Brendan Nelson describes his astonishment at his inability to get any response from Facebook when trying to get a diplomatically damaging fake page taken down. The social network ignored official protestations from the department of foreign affairs and security agencies."

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  1. I agree with the man by Camembert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I read through the article. I must say that I sympathise with him - he sees technology as something that should support life, not something that is pervasive, like people non-stop updating FB or twitter accounts. I also think that there could be a better authentication system at FB.