X Corp., the American technology company that owns Twitter, is reportedly set to file a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over the alleged stealing of its "secrets and intellectual property (IP)" to create the new social media platform Threads.
T(w)itter Daily News released the letter sent by lawyer Alex Spiro, the legal counsel of Twitter executive head Elon Musk, to Meta chief executive offer Mark Zuckerberg.
"Based on recent reports regarding your recently launched "Threads" app, Twitter has a serous concern that Meta Platforms ("Meta") has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property," Spiro said in the letter.
NEWS: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over "systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation" of Twitter's trade secrets and IP, as well as scraping of Twitter's data, in a cease-and-desist letter sent yesterday to Zuckerberg by Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro. pic.twitter.com/enWhnlYcAt
— T(w)itter Daily News (@TitterDaily) July 6, 2023
He accused Meta of purposedly hiring former Twitter employees to gain access to Twitter's "trade secrets and other highly confidential information" which he said enabled them to utilized this in creating the Threads app.
Spiro said this alleged act is "violation in both state and federal law."
He then called on Meta to quit utilizing Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information.
"Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta," the legal counsel said.
Spiro requested Meta to keep all the recruitment, hiring, and onboarding documents of the former Twitter employees.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk left a cryptic reply on the post of T(w)itter Daily News, saying "Competition is fine, cheating is not."
Competition is fine, cheating is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
Meta has recently launched Threads, a social media application similar to Twitter's function. But the design of Threads is very much alike to Instagram, particularly the buttons below the application.
Threads were launched amidst Twitter's controversial limits on reading posts and restricting of TweetDeck for verified users only.
