{"id":85240,"date":"2023-07-07T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85240"},"modified":"2023-07-07T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:40:14","slug":"twitter-accuses-meta-of-stealing-trade-secrets-for-its-new-threads-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2023\/twitter-accuses-meta-of-stealing-trade-secrets-for-its-new-threads-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter accuses Meta of stealing trade secrets for its new Threads app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Twitter\u2019s lawyer wrote a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/files\/ifn0l6bs\/production\/27109f01431939c8177d408d3c9848c3b46632cd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> to Facebook parent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\">Meta<\/a> on Wednesday, accusing the company of \u201csystematic\u201d and \u201cunlawful misappropriation\u201d of trade secrets following the launch of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/05\/meta-launches-instagram-threads-messaging-app-challenging-twitter.html\">Threads<\/a> service. The letter from longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> attorney Alex Spiro alleged that Meta\u2019s new Twitter clone was built by former Twitter employees \u201cdeliberately assigned\u201d to develop a \u201ccopycat\u201d app.  Semafor was first to report on the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/06\/twitter-accuses-meta-of-stealing-trade-secrets-for-its-new-threads-app.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Twitter\u2019s lawyer wrote a letter to Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday, accusing the company of \u201csystematic\u201d and \u201cunlawful misappropriation\u201d of trade secrets following the launch of its Threads service. The letter from longtime Elon Musk attorney Alex Spiro alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85241,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85240\/revisions\/85241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}