Facebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents

Facebook violated federal law with its secret program, according to some lawyers.

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents.

At the request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook officials developed a program called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) that they deployed in 2016, and the program was in use through mid-2019, according to the documents, which include internal emails.