Legal representatives of X Corp.'s Twitter warned Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg that the company could sue Meta over the Threads service, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter a Twitter lawyer supposedly sent to Zuckerberg.
Twitter has severe concerns about Meta's potential "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property," the letter showed. The Twitter attorney accused Meta of intentionally assigning former Twitter employees to work on Meta's "copycat" Threads app, which could violate state and federal laws protecting trade secrets and other intellectual property.
Twitter requested that Meta cease using Twitter's "highly confidential information" and threatened separate legal action over potential "crawling or scraping of Twitter's followers or following data," stating that Meta must save all documents "relevant to a dispute between Twitter, Meta, and/or former Twitter employees," according to the letter.
