Facebook Sues To Remove Online Origins Lawsuit

November 30, 2007 11:02 a.m. EST

Palo Alto, CA (AHN) - Facebook is asking a court to force an online Harvard alumni to remove documents related to a 2004 lawsuit on the origin of the popular social-networking site.

Facebook Thursday informed the independent magazine 02138 it has filed legal motions asking for the removal of online documents, including school records of founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The documents include Zuckerberg's Harvard application, an online diary post where the Facebook head talks of being "a little intoxicated," according to the report. Also part of the papers released online: a 2004 e-mail Zuckerberg sent to Harvard officials describing as a "minor annoyance" complaints that he used the idea of others to create Facebook.

In Sept. 2004, three former Harvard students sued Zuckerbuer, claiming he took their ideas while working for them on a social-networking site ConnectU. Zuckerberg later went on to form Facebook.

The magazine's reporter said he obtained the files from a clerk working at the U.S. District Court in Boston.