Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook

July 24th, 2007 By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.

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