GhostalmediaTwitter threatens to sue 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.
fuboIn California at least, “non-compete” clauses are illegal; Twitter here seems to be implying that they should be mandatory instead.
I 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.
Oh, cry me a river
More like LMFAO. He facilitated his own competition in more ways than one.
be_excellent_to_each_otherOh, 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.
Fight, fight, fight, fight!
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(Apologies for the low effort post)
artisanroxi'd like caramel and chocolate on mine plz 🤣
Well we'll well. If it isn't the consequences of one's own actions
The letter accused Meta of misappropriating Twitter's trade secrets and said Meta hired former Twitter employees who retained proprietary information, the sources said.
HAHAHAHAHA
Let them fight while Mastodon and company build up their infrastructure.
@Ghostalmedia This is just trying to hype up their boxing match /s.
Oh poor baby.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥💀
gillrmnIf 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.
DreamerOfImprobableDreamsTruly, from the bottom of my heart: LMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO
I 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.
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