Elon Musk is very upset with the success of the Meta Threads app and is threatening Mark Zuckerberg with legal action. According to the billionaire’s lawyers, the new service is a copy of Twitter, and the engineers were supposed to “steal trade secrets” of the company. How much truth is there?
The new social network Meta Threads gained about 30 million users on the day of launch. As you can see, this did not please Elon Musk, who has already taken the first steps towards a lawsuit. In his opinion, Threads is too similar to Twitter.
Meta Threads vs Twitter: Musk wants to sue Zuckerberg
Elon Musk’s personal lawyer, Alex Spiro, sent Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg a scathing letter of accusation. It states that the social network has “strong suspicions that Meta has been involved in the systematic, deliberate and misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
The document alleges that dozens of former Twitter employees found work at Zuckerberg’s company and “illegally stored documents and electronics” belonging to a former employer.
“The meta deliberately tasked these employees with just a few months to develop Threads, a clone of [Twittera]. It was created with the express intention of using Twitter’s trade secrets to speed up the development of a competing application. This is a violation of state and federal law, as well as a violation of the future obligations of former Twitter employees to the company,” Musk’s lawyer continued.
The letter ends with a call to stop using Twitter secrets under threat of legal action.
At the same time, Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Linda Iaccarino expressed public displeasure. “Competition at the beginning, fraud is not,” said the billionaire. “We are often imitated, but the Twitter community is not duplicated,” the head of the company emphasized.
Meta responds to Musk in Threads: ‘That’s just not true’
Meta communications director Andy Stone has already posted the first response to Twitter’s allegations. In his opinion, Musk’s lawyers are missing the truth. “Not a single engineer on the Threads team has worked at Twitter before — that’s just not true,” Stone said.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if he thought Threads could be more successful than Twitter. Meta’s CEO took the liberty of punching a competitor in the nose.
“It may take a while, but I think there should be a public debate app on the market with over a billion users. Twitter had a chance to achieve this goal, but they failed. I hope we succeed, ”the billionaire reasoned.
Source: Wprost
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