Liz Gannes

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Millions of Kids Are Sneaking on Facebook

While Facebook requires users to be at least 13, Consumer Reports projects that an estimated 7.5 million kids are lying about their age so they can use the service, and five million of those kids are age 10 and under. The magazine notes that children may be exposed to privacy and security risks, and tsk-tsks, “What’s even more troubling was the finding from our survey that indicated that a majority of parents of kids 10 and under seemed largely unconcerned by their children’s use of the site.” Facebook, for its part, spun the news by thanking such reports for bringing attention to the issue.

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Nobody was excited about paying top dollar for a movie about WikiLeaks. A film about the origins of Pets.com would have done better.

— Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com comments on the dreadful opening weekend box office numbers for “The Fifth Estate.”