RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — 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.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Facebook removes many sex offenders since May
By The Associated Press
February 19, 2009