The gloves are coming off — in more ways than one.
Only a day after launching its Threads app, tech giant Meta (the conglomerate that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other platforms) was slapped with a cease-and-desist letter from Twitter owner Elon Musk, who claims Threads is a copy of Twitter that was made by former Twitter employees using the company’s trade secrets.
Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, penned the letter on July 5 and sent it to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging 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,” Spiro writes. “Meta knows that these employees formerly worked at Twitter; that these employees had and continue to have Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter; and that many of these employees improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices.”
“With that knowledge,” Musk’s lawyer continued, “Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use…
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