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Omaha Steve

(99,556 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:15 AM Jul 2012

Fake Facebook account prompts defamation lawsuit


http://www.omaha.com/article/20120709/NEWS/707099925/1685#fake-facebook-account-prompts-defamation-lawsuit

By Todd Cooper

Call it fauxbook. Or fakebook. Or inyourfacebook.

Whatever you dub it, this may not be the best way to get back at your former boss.

An Omaha cleaning business owner has sued a former employee, alleging that the employee created a Facebook page in the owner's name, complete with doctored mugshots of the owner and defamatory posts.

The page includes the boss's full name and photos of the boss enhanced with devil horns, a circle with a slash over his face and a straw leading from his nose to a pile of white powder.

FULL story at link.

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