Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads platform in a letter sent to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg’s CEO by Twitter attorney Alex Spiro.
Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and already has more than 30 million subscribers, is trying to compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter by leveraging Instagram’s billions of users.
Meta owns Facebook and Instagram.
Spiro, in his letter, accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “have had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information,” news site Semafor first reported.
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and requires Meta to take immediate action to cease use of any Twitter trade secret or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in the letter.
A Reuters source familiar with the letter confirmed its contents on Thursday. Spiro did not respond to a request for comment for the story.
“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — they just don’t exist,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a thread on Threads.
A former senior Twitter employee told Reuters he was unaware of any former employee who worked at Threads, nor of any senior employee who went to Meta.
Meanwhile, Twitter owner Musk wrote, “Competition is okay, cheating isn’t,” in response to a tweet mentioning the news.
Source: Terra
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