Twitter’s parent company Meta’s newest project, the text-based offshoot called Threads, has encountered legal trouble just hours after its launch. Elon Musk’s lawyer sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” The letter was obtained by the news website Semafor. It argues that Meta hired former Twitter employees with access to sensitive information, which was then used to develop the new app. While the app has only logged 30 million users as of this writing, it’s designed to be a direct rival to … Continue reading Twitter Fires Warning Shot at Meta Over Threads