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Kylie Robison

Twitter is threatening to sue Instagram's parent company Meta over its launch of Threads, report says

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Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over its new text-based platform called Threads, Semafor has reported.

Alex Spiro, Twitter owner Elon Musk’s personal lawyer, sent a letter to Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of poaching dozens of former employees and using Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property to create a "copycat" application, according to a copy of the email viewed by Semafor. Spiro demanded that Meta immediately stop using Twitter's confidential information.

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