This week, Meta, the company that owns Facebook and WhatsApp, launched Threads. It is a new social network that is part of Instagram and aims to capitalize on the recent controversies surrounding Twitter. As you can imagine, Elon Musk wasn't pleased with this, and his company has already threatened to sue.
According to information from Semafor, Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta. The reason? They believe it infringes on their intellectual property and utilizes Twitter's trade secrets to operate. It's worth noting that former Twitter employees are part of the team behind this new app.
In fact, Alex Spiro, a lawyer working for Twitter, sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta. In the letter, which was sent just hours after the launch of Threads, they notify Meta that they are willing to take legal action against them, as they consider Threads to be a copy of Twitter and that its development violated state and federal laws.
“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.”" states the letter received by Meta.
It is worth mentioning that Meta stated that Twitter's accusations are baseless. Thus, it seems they are calm about this situation.
“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” Meta stated.
What do you think of this news? Have you joined Threads? Let us know in the comments.
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