Twitter alleges Meta hired former employees of the blogging platform and tapped trade secrets to develop new Threads service.
The letter's author, attorney Alex Spiro of law firm Quinn Emanuel, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Meta declined to comment on the letter, but communications director Andy Stone responded on Threads, writing,"No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing."
Twitter, which laid off its communications staff after Musk completed his $44 billion purchase of the company last year, didn't respond to an email requesting comment. The threatening letter comes after the debut of Threads on Wednesday, which within hours had signed up
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