Elon Musk’s attorney sent a letter accusing Meta of misappropriating Twitter’s trade secrets to make its Twitter-like app, Threads.
Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property,” reads the letter, which was first reported by the news startup Semafor.
The cease-and-desist letter also demanded that Meta refrain from collecting data from Twitter without its permission.
The letter, written by Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, was addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Spiro wrote in the letter that Twitter “knows” Meta hired “dozens” of former Twitter employees and used their access to Twitter’s trade secrets and confidential information to develop Threads.
Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director responded in writing “To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,’”
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