Twitter owner Elon Musk has threatened Facebook’s parent company Meta with a lawsuit over its new Threads platform. Meta allegedly misappropriated trade secrets and other intellectual property from Twitter.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has threatened Facebook’s parent company Meta with a lawsuit over its new Threads platform. In a letter published on Thursday by the website “Semafor”, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro wrote to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg that Meta had “unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets and other intellectual property” from Twitter.
Meta hired numerous former Twitter employees who still had access to Twitter’s “trade secrets and other highly confidential information”. These employees were used in a targeted manner to create a copycat app within months to compete with Twitter. Spiro threatens that Musk’s company reserves all rights to protect his intellectual property, including legal remedies.
Twitter competitor Threads was released in around 100 countries on Wednesday evening. According to Zuckerberg, the app was downloaded 30 million times within hours. However, the launch in Europe has been delayed due to the pending approval from Brussels.
Threads is Twitter’s biggest challenger to date and shares similarities with the short message service. A number of potential competitors have positioned themselves, particularly since the takeover of Twitter by Tesla billionaire Musk last year. So far, however, none has been able to establish itself as a real alternative.
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