Daily Mail makes further concessions after Facebook legal threat

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The Daily Mail has made further concessions in an attempt to prevent legal action by Facebook, after the social networking site said it could take action after being wrongly named in an article about child safety online .

The Mail published an online and print correction to the piece, which was originally published under the headline "I posed as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook. What followed will sicken you."

The Mail has said Facebook was mistakenly named in the piece, because of a miscommunication.

The Mail has now altered the title of the webpage and article url to remove references to Facebook, and taken down an image of Facebook which accompanied the piece - all actions requested by the social network, which yesterday said it would pursue legal action against the paper if further corrections were not made.

But Facebook's UK spokesperson Sophy Silver said the company is still considering its options, despite the new changes to the article by the Mail.

The piece by child protection expert Mark Williams-Thomas claimed that after just 90 seconds on the social networking site, his fake profile was approached by a middle-aged man who "wanted to perform a sex act in front of me". But Williams-Thomas himself has confirmed that the network in question was not Facebook.

Facebook also attempted to post comments on the original article to correct the piece, but these were not approved by the Mail's moderators, Silver said yesterday.