Facebook Warned in N.Y. on Safety Claims

October 1, 2007 By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- 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 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.

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