Facebook agrees to remove school shooting pages

February 26, 2013 01:36

Facebook has agreed to remove some so-called tribute pages related to last year's Connecticut school shooting over concerns they're being used to exploit the tragedy, US Senator Richard Blumenthal said today. Blumenthal and other lawmakers from the state requested the removal of offending pages in a letter today to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

The lawmakers said some pages purportedly set up to honour the victims of the December 14 shooting have been used to exploit or harass the victims' families and could be used as vehicles for financial fraud.

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