Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends

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Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
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NEW: Cache of leaked Facebook documents obtained by NBCNews shows how Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network's power and control competitors by treating its users' data as a bargaining chip.

after the company announced plans to cut off access to some types of user data. Six4Three's app, Pikinis, which soft-launched in 2013, relied on that data to allow users to easily find Facebook photos of their friends in bathing suits.

Numerous other apps besides Six4Three also faded away as a result: Lulu, an app that let women rate the men they dated; an identity fraud-detecting app called Beehive ID; and the Swedish breast cancer awareness app Rosa Bandet . In a July court filing, Facebook attorneys accused Six4Three and its previous lawyers of"orchestrating one of the largest and most damaging violations of a protective order in history."

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