Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]

See also: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threat...

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620536

IANAL

> Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

> He also alleged that Meta assigned those employees to develop “Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.”

Isn’t the burden here on Twitter enormous? And given META’s size, a discovery would be enormous and require serious legal effort and money on Elon’s behalf, legal effort that would be better appropriated in dealing with legal issues in EU?

Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism.

I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.

I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy.

I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him.

Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!