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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (www.semafor.com)

submitted 3 years ago by igalmarino@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Poaching? Didn't Twitter drive out or lay off or fire nearly all their employees? You can't get rid of people and then complain when they go work for somebody you don't like.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 56 points 3 years ago

Elon, next week: "Layoffs are free speech, but hiring the discarded rejects of another Employer is dumpster-diving and therefore theft."

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[–] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago

“We may have fired our staff and blocked our customers from accessing Twitter content, but they are still ours.” -Elon Musk