ccording to court documents reviewed by Reuters.
The emails could supply valuable evidence to investigators, including a U.S. House of Representatives panel that sought company records in September on Facebook's decisions to bar apps from its social graph, which maps out relations between users. Facebook has described the case as baseless. A company spokeswoman told Reuters the documents were "taken out of context by someone with an agenda against Facebook" and made public "with a total disregard for U.S. law."
One executive, writing in 2013, described dividing apps into "three buckets: existing competitors, possible future competitors, developers that we have alignment with on business models" as part of the project to restrict access to user data, dubbed 'PS12N'. The "narrative" for the announcement "will focus on quality and the user experience which will potentially provide a good umbrella to fold in some of the API deprecations," one executive wrote in an email.