On Friday, July 7, it became known that Elon Musk’s Twitter company is threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta corporation because of a new project, the Threads social network.
As FACTS has already reported, Threads is very similar in its functionality and capabilities to Twitter. It launched in about 100 countries this week. It currently has over 30 million registered users.
Experts call the new social network “Twitter killer”.
At first, Musk was scathing about Threads. However, he then posted a tweet that read: “Competition is good, but cheating is not.” And accused Zuckerberg of stealing.
A little later, the essence of Elon’s claims to Mark became known. Twitter’s chief legal officer, Alex Spiro, sent an official letter to Zuckerberg on July 5, accusing Meta of “systematic, malicious, and misappropriation of trade secrets and other intellectual property of Twitter.” It seems that all this was done in the process of creating Threads.
Spiro claims that Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees who were fired last fall after Musk bought the company for $48 billion. These people allegedly have access to Twitter secrets. And they helped the Zuckerberg team use that information.
Musk’s lawyer calls Meta’s actions industrial espionage and intellectual property theft. He demands to suspend the work of Threads, otherwise he will file a lawsuit in court.
Threads spokesman Andy Stone responded that all these accusations have no basis. According to Stone, the technical team that created Threads and now maintains the work of the new social network does not have a single former employee of Twitter.
Recall that at the end of June, the news about the readiness of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to meet in a skirmish in Las Vegas in the famous “cell”, where fights without rules are held, was confirmed. The UFC considers the prospect of the fight quite real.
Source: Fakty
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