Meta's Threads App Sparks Legal Battle with Elon Musk's Twitter
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Elon Musk's Twitter has threatened to sue Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over the launch of Threads, a text-focused social app that competes with Twitter. Twitter alleges that Meta has engaged in the misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property, claiming that Meta deliberately assigned former Twitter employees to develop Threads using Twitter's confidential information. Musk responded to the legal threat, stating that competition is fine but cheating is not. Twitter's cease-and-desist letter also prohibits Meta from crawling or scraping Twitter's follower data without consent.
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