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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 11 (UPI) -- The highly popular but often criticized youth Web site MySpace.com has hired a former federal prosecutor to oversee content, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Child-safety advocates praised the choice of Internet safety expert and former Justice Department pornography prosecutor Hemanshu Nigam as MySpace's first chief security officer.
Nigam, most recently with Microsoft Corp., will oversee content at the Web site, which is No. 2 in U.S. daily page views behind Yahoo! Inc.
News Corp., the parent of the Santa Monica, Calif., Web site, also launched a public service advertising campaign Monday to warn MySpace.com users against sexual predators.
The spots, which are playing on other News Corp. Web sites and TV outlets, say "don't believe the type" when strangers approach children online.
"There are certain issues on MySpace that are endemic to the Internet that are endemic to society as a whole," MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe told the newspaper. "Having a safe site and having a cool site that lots of people are into aren't mutually exclusive ideas."
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