Social media giant Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, over the release of its Threads app.
Twitter claims that the Threads app infringes its intellectual property rights and violates certain terms of use.
The Threads app, launched by Meta on Thursday is part of its suite of social networking applications and allows users to engage in threaded conversations and discussions. It has been downloaded by millions since its launch.
In a letter written to Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, the micro blogging website says it has serious concerns that Meta has engaged in ‘systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property’.
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Mr. Spiro also accuses Meta of recruiting numerous former Twitter employees who, in his own words, “had, and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”
He alleges that these employees were assigned by Meta to develop the Threads app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property to accelerate the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.
Responding to these allegations, Meta communications director Andy Stone said “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing”.
It is not unheard of for tech employees to move from one company to another especially those who work on social media platforms.
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