Twitter’s lawyer wrote a letter to Facebook parent Meta, accusing the company of “systematic” and “unlawful misappropriation” of trade secrets following the launch of its Threads service.
Twitter’s rivalry with Meta could turn into a legal battle.
Meta said Thursday that none of the people working on Threads are former Twitter employees after it was reported that Elon Musk’s attorneyaccusing Meta of misappropriating Twitter’s trade secrets to make its Twitter-like app, Threads. “To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,’” Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director,Spiro wrote in the letter that Twitter “knows” Meta hired “dozens” of former Twitter employees and used their access to Twitter’s trade secrets and confidential information to develop Threads.
“Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property,”The cease-and-desist letter also demanded that Meta refrain from collecting data from Twitter without its permission.Spiro and the law firm Quinn Emanuel, which represent Twitter’s owner, X Corp., did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.: “Competition is fine, cheating is not.
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