Twitter could sue Meta for using trade secrets to create Threads

The letter is dated Wednesday, July 5, but was released this Thursday by the specialized media Semafor. There, the lawyer indicates that Twitter intends to “strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”

Thus, Twitter reserves the right to sue Meta and demand injunctive relief without prior notice “to prevent Meta from retaining, disclosing, or further using its intellectual property.”

The lawyer argues that Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.” These employees, the letter indicates, helped Meta develop the new social network Threads.

Meta replied to Semafor that the accusations are unfounded: “Nobody on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee, that’s just not a problem,” he said.

For his part, Elon Musk wrote on Twitter: “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”