The Morning After: Twitter says Meta stole trade secrets to build Threads
Twitter probably isn’t happy, as beyond its own problems, Threads is doing a decent job of replicating Elon Musk’s social network. Now that’s legally true: Twitter has threatened, accusing it of poaching former employees and unlawful misappropriation of trade secrets and intellectual property.
“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,” Alex Spiro, Elon Musk's personal lawyer, wrote in a letter to Meta. Spiro, who is acting on behalf of Twitter parent X Corp., claims Meta has hired dozens of ex-Twitter employees over the last year.
Meta has refuted Spiro's claims. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing," Meta communications director Andy Stone wrote on… Threads.Great deals on consumer electronics delivered straight to your inbox, curated by Engadget’s editorial team.
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