Twitter threatens to sue Meta: Meta has launched Twitter’s competitor app Threads. This app has got more than 30 million users in less than a day. Meanwhile, news is coming out that Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro has threatened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to go to court for threads. He has written a letter to Mark accusing him of hiring ex-Twitter employees. It also said that these employees had and still have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.
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In the letter, Musk’s lawyer further wrote that the company intends to vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta immediately stop using Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information. If the company does not do this, then be ready to meet in the court. However, following this letter, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a Threads post that there are no former Twitter employees on the Threads engineering team – that doesn’t matter.
The below is a leak of the letter sent by Spiro to Meta, as reported by @semafor,
The allegations center on trade secrets shared by ex-Twitter employees hired by Meta, but also hints that Meta may have been scraping Twitter’s data in violation of its terms of service. pic.twitter.com/Lo6usdsM7Q
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Twitter’s ex-employee also said something similar
A former senior Twitter employee told Reuters he was not aware of any former employees working on Meta’s threads or any senior employees currently employed at Meta. According to him, there is no Twitter employee in the company. Meanwhile, Musk replied in Twitter Daily News that “competition is fine, not cheating”. The news about Meta was also posted by Twitter Daily News.
Law experts said this
Intellectual property law experts said Twitter would need more concrete evidence than what is written in the letter to allege Meta of trade secret theft. That is, just the matter of hiring ex-employee will not work. For this, the company would need concrete evidence.
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