From CNET: Twitter threatened to sue Meta just one day after Facebook's parent company went live with its Twitter-like social media app Threads, according to a report by Semafor.
"Competition is fine, cheating is not," Twitter Executive Chairman Elon Musk tweeted in response to the report Thursday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly sent a letter by Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro, accusing Meta of intentionally stealing "Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."
Spiro accused Meta of getting Twitter's secrets by hiring dozens of former Twitter employees and claimed the Facebook parent company put them to work making a Twitter copycat, using their insider knowledge to speed up development of the Threads app -- which is "in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees' ongoing obligations to Twitter," Spiro said in the letter.
View: Full Article
