{"id":19381,"date":"2019-10-03T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19381"},"modified":"2019-10-03T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:18:29","slug":"us-house-panel-taps-defunct-startup-for-facebook-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=19381","title":{"rendered":"US House panel taps defunct startup for Facebook files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee has requested Facebook files from a defunct startup that critics of the social media company say show it unfairly used its power to take out competing companies.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is asking for all filings relating to the startup Six4Three&#8217;s lawsuit against Facebook, including thousands of internal Facebook documents and emails,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/svklwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshsvbllr_lmdmjjgkgrmjwzmdmndw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/svklwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshsvbllr_lmdmjjgkgrmjwzmdmndw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570240644721000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEGxTL6iQ9qVwKWjbYKKSEnfxN4nQ\">The Associated Press reported<\/a>. The documents were previously sealed by a California judge.<\/p>\n<p>The documents associated with Six4Three could bring new light to the debate about the social media mogul&#8217;s competitive strategies and whether they are overreaching, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the documents suggest that Facebook narrowed access to user data from certain apps that competed against the company.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred pages of the documents have already been made public after British officials requested them from Six4Three Managing Director Ted Kramer.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer claims that Facebook destroyed Six4Three&#8217;s startup by limiting access to user data. The startup app called Pikinis found swimsuit photos from users&#8217; friends on Facebook, the AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee has requested&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19382,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions\/19382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}