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Musk accuses Meta of cheating to build Twitter rival Threads; lawsuit coming?

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Twitter is making noise about suing Meta over its new Threads social media site after Musk says that Meta cheated to create the platform.
If Elon Musk isn’t feeling nervous about the $44 billion he sunk into Twitter, he’s not being honest with himself. Meta’s new Twitter competitor Threads is already available in 100 countries and had signed up over 10 million users after the platform was live for only seven hours. Not that there aren’t some concerns. Because Threads requires subscribers to have an Instagram account to join, deleting Threads will require the user to delete the linked Instagram account. Keep that in mind if you want to leave Threads.With Musk obviously concerned, Twitter is turning to the courtroom in an attempt to stop Meta. A report by Semafor (via CNET) says that Alex Spiro, Musk’s personal attorney, wrote Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing Meta of stealing “Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.

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