Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over the new Threads app.
Spiro, who is acting on behalf of Twitter parent X Corp, claims that Meta has hired dozens of ex-Twitter employees over the last year. He claimed the company "deliberately assigned" them to work on Threads "with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate development of Meta's competing app." He argued this violates state and federal laws as well as those employees' obligations to their former employer. In addition, Spiro said Meta is prohibited from scraping Twitter data relating to who people follow.
Oh, cry me a river. Dude fired a bunch of folks, Meta swooped them up, looked at their experience, then asked them to work where their experience is relevant.
Musk 100% did this with other people working in the auto industry. He hired folks from other auto and tech industries, and he hired folks with relevant experience in similar tech.
Fuck this guy.
110In California at least, "non-compete" clauses are illegal; Twitter here seems to be implying that they should be mandatory instead.
45Hopefully this suit doesn’t go anywhere and doesn’t make it to the Supreme Court. I those morons, who know nothing about tech, totally voting in favor of Musk.
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It's not like they just left either, he forced them out, now he wants them to not take what was probably the best paying job. You don't get to control where other people work and don't work, there's a name for that.
39Oh, cry me a river
More like LMFAO. He facilitated his own competition in more ways than one.
18Not only that, but Meta is even claiming that they don't have any former Twitter employees. Sounds like Musk is projecting. Either that, or he's grasping at straws.
8I wouldn't be surprised if meta not only hired ex-tech employees, but also hired ex-legal employees.
IRC twitter fired half of all its legal dept.
7Oh, cry me a river. Dude fired a bunch of folks, Meta swooped them up, looked at their experience, then asked them to work where their experience is relevant.
Although I agree, I'm not sure I can imagine a more satisfying degree of schadenfreude than Musk and Zuckerberg engaging in a legal slapfight with each other.
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Former Twitter employees? As if that means anything at all. Threads can get sued for all I care though. Whatever wastes both of their money is a great success.
30They would've brought "trade secrets" with them, such as knowing how to code...? Elon has been saying he's going to "rewrite the stack" himself so it can't be that fancy, eh?
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Fight, fight, fight, fight!
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(Apologies for the low effort post)
14i'd like caramel and chocolate on mine plz 🤣
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Well we'll well. If it isn't the consequences of one's own actions
8Truly, from the bottom of my heart: LMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO
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7Let them fight while Mastodon and company build up their infrastructure.
6Hope they bleed out each other.
6@Ghostalmedia This is just trying to hype up their boxing match /s.
5The letter accused Meta of misappropriating Twitter's trade secrets and said Meta hired former Twitter employees who retained proprietary information, the sources said.
HAHAHAHAHA
5I wonder if they will get sued by this clothing company. https://www.threads.net.au/ seems they would have more of a case than twitter.
4Threads was a short lived thing back in 2021. Easier to clear through internal legal approval on a trademark that you’re sitting on.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/
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Oh poor baby.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥💀
4If our media was free, they would be ridiculing this action, and calling for more rights of employees.
If courts made sense, they would throw this case before hearing it to not waste time.
If unions were functional, they would have …
Unfortunately, none of that is true and here we are.
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