Twitter has threatened Meta with legal action over its new app “Threads”, accusing the social media giant of luring former staff to create a “copycat” product.
Instagram parent company Meta unveiled Threads, a text-based Instagram companion that resembles Twitter, on Thursday.
Within hours after the release, Twitter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, charging the business of “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Spiro via a letter said “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.
“Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.”
Spiro accused Meta of recruiting dozens of former Twitter workers who “had access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information” and “continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”
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The parent company of Threads, Meta said that no law was broken and no former employee of Twitter who had trade secrets was hired.
