Elon Musk can certainly try to sue Meta, and that’s what he’s threatening to do this week. The new Twitter boss is upset over Meta’s launch of Threads, a rival social media platform.
Elon Musk can certainly try to sue Meta, and that’s what he’s threatening to do this week. The new Twitter boss is upset over Meta’s launch of Threads, a rival social media platform that appears to mimic Twitter in many ways, promising the same type of social interactions but without all of the drama that comes with a Musk enterprise. But it also comes without the promise of being a true haven for free speech. One of Musk’s attorneys sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday accusing him of creating a Twitter “copycat” by hiring former Twitter employees who presumably would bring the company’s trade secrets with them. But Zuckerberg (who is reportedly preparing for a literal “cage match” against Musk) claims that the accusations are baseless. (AP)
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor.
In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app.
Since launching Threads Wednesday night, Meta’s new app has collected tens of millions of sign ups. The app, which was created by the company’s Instagram team, arrives at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for $44 billion.
