Twitter lawyer and Elon Musk’s personal lawyer Alex Spiro sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, saying Meta Platforms has engaged in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
The letter goes on to state that Meta hired former Twitter employees and, by extension, acquired Twitter’s trade secrets, as first reported by Semafor. Meta then used these trade secrets and former Twitter employees to speedily develop the “copycat” app Threads, Twitter alleges.
In the letter, Twitter demands that Meta must “take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”