Former world’s richest man and owner of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, Elon Musk has threatened to sue Meta owner, Mark Zuckerberg over alleged breach of trade secrets after the launch of Threads, an application that threathens Twitter after over 30 million downloads.
Zuckerberg’s Meta owns Instagram, Facebook and other micro-blogging platforms.
Millions of people downloaded the newly launched application in few days after it’s launch.
Semafor, a news website reported, that Musk has written to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg through Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro.
The Twitter lawyer stated in the letter that, Meta has engaged in “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.
Spiro stated,“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information”.
He further accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information, according to the Semafor report published on Thursday.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in a Threads post stated, “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing”.
A former senior Twitter employee told Reuters they were not aware of any former staffers working on Threads, nor any senior personnel who landed at Meta at all.
However Twitter owner Musk while responding to a tweet said, while “Competition is fine, cheating is not”.
Since Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform has been facing competition from Mastodon and Bluesky, among others.
Threads’s user interface, has a striking resemblance to the microblogging platform Twitter as claimed by Spiro and Musk.
