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Facebook defends position on hate speech (Irish Times)
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has moved to defend and clarify its policies on gender-based hate speech amid pressure from advertisers. The company said there was “no place” on the social network for content that was threatening, incited violence or was “deemed to be genuinely or directly harmful”, but that “distasteful content on its own” does not violate its policies. The company was responding to an open letter written by a coalition of more than 60 groups, in which they asked Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) users to pressure companies to pull their advertising from Facebook until it removes offensive pages and changes its policies on moderating content that targets women for violence.

Teens migrating from Facebook to Twitter (Columbus Dispatch)
Almost a quarter of online teenagers use Twitter to catch up with friends and keep track of celebrities — a big jump in usage as teens flock to various social-media sites and spend less time on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to avoid their parents and other adults as well as rampant “over-sharing.” The number of teen Twitter users is up from 16 percent in 2011, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. About 16 percent of adults tapping social-media sites use Twitter. Teens are increasingly turning to Twitter, the mobile photo-sharing service Instagram and the social blogging service Tumblr as they express “waning enthusiasm” for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), the survey found.