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FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) oversees efforts to control competitors with his user data, NBC News reported.

According to reports, Face book uses its huge amount of user data as leverage to trade with outside companies, allowing access to some partners while denying access to competitors and competitors.

(NBC) CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversees social networks' efforts to control competitors and uses user data as a bargaining chip, NBC reported on Tuesday.

NBC says it has obtained about 4000 leaked Face book documents, most of them between 2011 and 2015. According to NBC News, the documents are said to have originated from a court case between Face book and app developer Six43, including emails, chat transcripts, presentations, spreadsheets and meeting summaries. NBC News said the British Parliament had previously released documents as part of an investigation into the Cambridge analytical data scandal.

Face book has repeatedly stated that it will not sell people's data, including a signed article by Zuckerberg in the Wall Street Journal in January. The company reiterated that in a statement on Tuesday.

As we have said many times, the 643 founders of Pikinis applications chose these files from a lawsuit many years ago to force Face book to share information about application users and friends. From a design perspective, this set of documents tells only one side of the story and ignores the important background, "paul gray Grewal, vice president and general counsel of Face book, said in an emailed statement." But the truth is clear: we have never sold people's data. "

While Face book may not sell the data for economic gain, it has taken advantage of its vast data collection, not just sales.

According to NBC News, the documents show that Face book considers several ways in which third-party applications can compensate users for data access, including advertising fees, data sharing and direct payments. The company reportedly decided to allow partners who spend money or share data on Face book to access and share data with app developers believed to be Zuckerberg's personal friends. Face book also blocks data access from competitors, including the increasingly popular MessageMe, which could pose a threat to Face book Messenger, the report found.

As the world's largest social network, Face book controls the data of more than 2 billion people. Who can access it? Some lawmakers have suggested disbanding Face book to reduce its control over social media. The tech giant also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. Politicians have also called on Face book to mismanage people's sensitive data because critics argue that social networks value profit rather than privacy. The company has repeatedly tried to convince the public that it has changed, including creating a series of pop-up windows to explain Face book's privacy practices.

In March, Zuckerberg said Face book would pay more attention to privacy and see it as the future of social networks. However, according to the leaked documents, privacy appears to be a public relations strategy rather than a focus on users.

For example, when Face book cut off data access from its competitors, it issued a public statement saying it was protecting the privacy of its users. After the publication of Cambridge Analysis (Cambridge Analytica), Face book extracted data from millions of people through online tests, limiting developers' access to data. Despite these changes, Face book still shares a lot of data with Netflix, Amazon and Spotify.

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