Twitter threatens: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, over its new app Threads the so-called Twitter-killer app. According to an official warning letter obtained by Semafor, Twitter claims that Meta violated intellectual property rights by poaching former Twitter engineers to build its new microblogging platform. Meta denies these allegations and states no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee. Twitter owner Elon Musk also accuses Meta of cheating.
In the letter addressed to Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter notes that it “has serious concerns” that the Facebook and Instagram-maker “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation.” The letter further reads:
Twitter threatens: “Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees. Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter, that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter, and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices. With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat “Threads” app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Mcta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.“
