Elon Musk's lawyer sends letter threatening to take Mark Zuckerberg to court over his Twitter 'copycat'
, confirmed by Insider, claims Meta used"Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property" to build Threads.
Spiro went on in the letter to accuse Meta of hiring"dozens of former Twitter employees," some of which"improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices." He also suggested that Meta had been"crawling and scraping" Twitter data on users and followers by reminding the company such activity is"expressly prohibited.
A spokesman for Meta referred Insider to a Threads post from communications head Andy Stone, in which he wrote,"To be clear, no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that's just not a thing." Stone added in a follow up Threads comment, regarding Twitter's suggestion that Meta was"scraping" data:"Interesting, given that Threads is powered by INSTAGRAM.
Twitter representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment ahead of publication. Musk, responding to a Twitter account that posted the news of the letter,While there is, and has for years been, employee crossover between Meta and Twitter, a source familiar with both companies said there are a small handful of former Twitter workers currently at Meta, none of whom appear to be currently working on Threads.
As for Twitter's claim that former employees"retained" their work laptops, a former employee said everyone who was laid off, fired, or quit amid Musk's takeover had their devices immediately"bricked," meaning they were locked by the company and could no longer be used. Twitter was meant toPublic tension between Musk and Zuckerberg has been
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