US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files

AP ^ | 10/03/19 | Staff

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A U.S. congressional committee has requested a trove of internal Facebook documents that the company’s critics say will demonstrate how the social media giant unfairly leveraged its market dominance to crush or absorb competitors.

The request by the House Judiciary Committee comes amid a flurry of new antitrust investigations of technology giants, including ones by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. At issue here is a cache of internal Facebook documents unearthed in a case brought by Six4Three, a defunct startup whose founders have waged a bitter four-year legal battle with the social network.

In a nine-page Sept. 13 letter obtained by The Associated Press, the House committee requested all substantive filings from Six4Three’s lawsuit. That would include thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents and emails, some authored by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that were ordered sealed by a California judge. The AP has obtained many of these documents.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the House committee made document requests to “dozens” of smaller companies that compete with Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple.

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Popcorn, anyone?

[FLT-bird]

Break them up as illegal monopolies.

Start with Alphabet.

[Red Badger]

This is a shot across the bow to Suckerberg.

Pay up! or we break up...................

[Hostage]

A movie was made about him portraying him as a young Harvard dropout genius. He wasn't a genius but he was a dropout.

'The Facebook' was a DARPA-CIA program from the start known as 'Lifelog' designed to provide a social media set of spy tools.

The script written for him, not the film about him, but the script he was to act out after he was chosen as the startup's 'entrepreneur' mimicked the story of Gates & Allen dropping out of Harvard and founding Microsoft.

The Mocking Bird Media ran tabloid stories about him "Hey girls! He's a billionaire and he's available!" after the CIA-Wall St. cabal boosted his IPO and created another billionaire from nothing.

And now he's fighting anti-trust for censoring and spying on Americans and others around the world who dare to oppose the progressive disease spreading the globalist agenda.