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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In California at least, "non-compete" clauses are illegal; Twitter here seems to be implying that they should be mandatory instead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hopefully this suit doesn’t go anywhere and doesn’t make it to the Supreme Court. I those morons, who know nothing about tech, totally voting in favor of Musk.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

It's not like they just left either, he forced them out, now he wants them to not take what was probably the best paying job. You don't get to control where other people work and don't work, there's a name for that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Oh, cry me a river

More like LMFAO. He facilitated his own competition in more ways than one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not only that, but Meta is even claiming that they don't have any former Twitter employees. Sounds like Musk is projecting. Either that, or he's grasping at straws.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.