Spiro threatened legal action unless Meta immediately stopped utilising Twitter’s trade secrets and sensitive information.
In response to Elon Musk’s litigation threat against their new platform Threads, Meta has released a statement saying that no one working on the program previously worked for Twitter.
Threads, Meta’s text-based platform developed in conjunction with Instagram, has swiftly become the most popular alternative to Twitter, attracting tens of millions of users after its inception.
But only hours after its debut, Twitter’s attorney Alex Spiro wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the business had illegally replicated Twitter’s model by employing former Twitter workers.
In his letter, Spiro threatened legal action unless Meta immediately stopped utilising Twitter’s trade secrets and sensitive information.
He reaffirmed Twitter’s commitment to IP protection and noted the company’s potential interest in pursuing injunctive and other legal remedies.
Spiro claims that Meta has employed many ex-Twitter workers who know Twitter’s proprietary information.
To speed up the creation of Meta’s competitive platform, he claimed that Meta’s Threads app intentionally made use of Twitter’s intellectual property.
Spiro said that the workers’ continued responsibilities to Twitter were being breached along with state and federal laws.
In response to these claims, Andy Stone, Meta’s director of communications, clarified that no former Twitter workers are part of the Threads technical team.
The news that Twitter was considering legal action against Meta prompted Elon Musk to comment, “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
It is unclear at this time how Meta and Twitter will settle their differences. Both firms feature heavily in the social media landscape, therefore the resolution of this dispute might have far-reaching effects.
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