Facebook Apologizes For Ad Featuring Photos of Suicide Victim

Two online dating ads featured on Facebook this week included photos of a teenager who committed suicide

The social network has since apologized for the ads, which promoted a Canadian online-dating site by including images of Rehtaeh Parsons. Parsons, 17, hanged herself in April after pictures showing her alleged rape circulated online

In its apology, Facebook called the ads' inclusion of the photos "a gross violation of our ad policies." A company spokesperson released the following statement:

"This is an extremely unfortunate example of an advertiser scraping an image from the Internet and using it in their ad campaign. This is a gross violation of our ad policies and we have removed the ad and permanently deleted the advertiser's account. We apologize for any harm this has caused." Read more...