Facebook gave some advertisers and companies special access to data about Facebook users, made quick decisions about shutting down its competitors’ access to data and focused aggressively on making sure data points procured within external Facebook apps made their way back to Facebook to increase the company’s value, a British lawmaker alleged Wednesday. (Adweek)
The U.K. released a 250-page document containing private emails from Facebook, including communiques from Mark Zuckerberg himself. The emails come from a California court case, brought by the app maker Six4Three about Facebook’s treatment of third-party apps. (Mashable)
The documents provide a look into the ways Facebook executives, including Zuckerberg, treated information posted by users like a commodity that could be harnessed in service of business goals. Apps were invited to use Facebook’s network to grow, as long as that increased usage of Facebook. (Bloomberg)
Facebook denies any wrongdoing and says the documents published by the British parliament give a misleading picture of what took place. (Politico)