New Telegraph Admin 
Twitter owner, Elon Musk, has accused Meta of hiring some Twitter ex-employers to steal its trade secrets, which culminated in the launch of a Twitter-like app, Threads. Confirming a viral letter in which Twitter is threatening to sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over the launch of Threads, Musk said what Meta had done was not a competition but cheating.
In the letter addressed to Zuckerberg, Twitter claimed that Meta had over the past year hired dozens of former Twitter employees employees who had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information. Twitter said Meta’s act violates both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.
The company added it would 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. In the letter addressed to Meta founder, Zuckerberg, Twitter’s legal representative, Alex Spiro, wrote: “I write on behalf of X Corp., as successor in interest to Twitter, Inc. (Twitter).
Based on recent reports regarding your recently launched Threads” app, Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (“Meta’”) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.
“Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees. Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter; that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter; and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices.
“With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat “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.
