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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/553347

Alternative title: Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads

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[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It's finally happening! We did it, Lemmy!

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Hoping they settle this in the ring.

[–] maino82@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

Spiro's letter complains about Meta hiring some of the many workers who were laid off or resigned from Twitter in the eight months since Musk bought the company.

"Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees... these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information," Spiro wrote in the letter to Zuckerberg. The workers, he alleged, "owe ongoing obligations to Twitter," and many "have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices."

"We fired a bunch of people and you hired them to build the same thing they built for us! Not fair not fair!"

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

An expensive legal campaign is yet another excuse for Twitter to go bankrupt that ignores the fact that the leveraged buyout was already a death sentence - like almost every other.

[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe I'm rooting for Zuckerberg over that walking shitstain Musk here. WTAF.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It does feel weird.

[–] DECOYpol@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

....let them fight.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

So maybe this is why they used ActivityPub. Plausible deniability and accelerated development. Maybe this has nothing to do with the Fediverse. 🤔

[–] MarioBarisa@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

They are like kids

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Really, the only way X Corp. has any way to get Meta to stop would be on anti-trust grounds, which would be hilarious.

[–] shanghaibebop 3 points 1 year ago

Good luck with that, Instagram copied both snapchat and tiktok, and even facebook itself is a copy of the concept of myspace.

The only mote to social media is the strength of their networks.

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Imagine how hilarious it would be to see Musk calling Zuck a pedo.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If this is a way for Musk to dodge getting his ass beat by Zuckerbot 3000 at the coleseum he's got another thing coming.