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Twitter accuses Meta of infringement, hiring its former employees to aid Threads development! Musk: Cheating is not good.

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Twitter accuses Meta of infringement, hiring its former employees to aid Threads development! Musk: Cheating is not good.

The new product Threads by Meta, as a competitor to Twitter, accumulated over 30 million users within one day of its launch. Despite this apparent success, Twitter has accused Meta of stealing its trade secrets and intellectual property, as well as hiring a large number of former Twitter employees. Even Elon Musk expressed dissatisfaction on Twitter. If Meta does not take immediate corrective actions, Twitter has stated that legal action may be taken.

Twitter Accuses Meta of Infringement to Accelerate Threads Development! Lawsuit Possible

According to the exclusive report from the foreign media Semafor, Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Zuckerberg after Threads, Twitter's biggest competitor, officially launched yesterday, accusing Meta of:

"Systematically, intentionally, and unlawfully misappropriating Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."

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At the same time, Twitter also stated in the letter that it intends to strictly enforce intellectual property rights, demanding that Meta immediately take action to cease the use of any of Twitter's trade secrets or other highly confidential information, and reserves the right to seek civil damages and injunctive relief.

Furthermore, Twitter also accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees, stating that these employees "previously and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information," and were assigned by Meta to accelerate the development of Threads. Twitter expressed that Meta violated state and federal laws, as well as the former employees' existing obligations to Twitter.

Meta Denies Employing Former Employees, Musk Expresses Displeasure

Regarding the accusation of hiring former employees, Meta's Communications Director Andy Stone told Semafor that the claim is baseless, stating that no member of the Threads engineering team was a former Twitter employee.

However, in response to this incident, Musk expressed his displeasure towards Meta's actions on Twitter this morning, stating: "Competition is good, cheating is not." It is evident that he is not pleased with Meta's practices.

Interestingly, on the day Threads was launched, Zuckerberg posted a tweet on Twitter for the first time in 11 years, featuring a widely circulated Spider-Man meme image, indicating his apparent agreement with the high similarity between Threads and Twitter.