How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contract Is ‘Forged’ - wired.com
Hoping to blast away a lawsuit with digital science, Facebook asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss a long-running case brought by New York resident Paul Ceglia who claims he owns half of the social networking site. Ever since Ceglia filed suit in 2010, Facebook has made it clear it believes the contract and e-mails that Ceglia has produced as evidence are fakes — and it even hired private investigators to dig up dirt on Ceglia‘s none-too-sparkly past.
As we reported Monday, Facebook told a federal judge that its forensic examiners proved that a 9-year-old contract between Ceglia and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was “forged.” The analysis also claims that 27 e-mails between Zuckerberg and Ceglia — some of which mention Facebook — were “fabricated” by Ceglia. Zuckerberg has said all along that the authentic “Work for Hire” contract involved another project. Ceglia hired Zuckerberg to work on Ceglia’s StreetFax company nearly a decade ago, Zuckerberg claims. Ceglia, however, alleges the contract also included fronting Zuckerberg $2,000 in exchange for half of Facebook when Zuckerberg was a Harvard University computer science student.
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