Musk’s Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta’s Threads Alleging Cheating

The battle between Meta’s Threads and Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to turn ugly.  Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for allegedly using its trade secrets and poaching its former employees to build the new “copycat” platform.

Threads got over 30 million users in 24 hours after its launch. It has become a worry for the Twitter think tank.

Musk said in a tweet on Friday: “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”

Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”, reported Semafor.

“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,” the Twitter lawyer added.

Spiro also accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director termed Twitter’s accusations to be “baseless”.