Twitter has threatened to take legal action against Meta over its new text-based social network, Threads. The social media giant accuses Meta of hiring its former employees to create a copy of its application.
On Wednesday, Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger) launched Threads, a mobile application that has already garnered 30 million downloads.
Within hours, Twitter's attorney, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging in "systematic, deliberate, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual properties."
"Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who 'had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets.'
Additionally, he alleged that Meta assigned these employees the task of developing an imitating application called 'Threads' with the specific intent of using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual properties to expedite the development of Meta's competing application," as stated in a letter published by the specialized publication Semafor.
Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta immediately cease using any trade secrets or highly confidential information from Twitter.
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