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Elon Musk threatens lawsuit against Meta as Twitter rival Threads takes off Elon Musk

Elon Musk threatens lawsuit against Meta as Twitter rival Threads takes off

Key PointsTwitter's owner Elon Musk has threatened legal action over Threads. He has accused Thread's parent company, Meta, of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets. Meta's new app Threads has collected tens of millions of sign ups within 24 hours of launching. Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the…
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July 7, 2023
Twitter Accuses Meta of ‘Willful and Unlawful’ Intellectual Theft After Threads Launch, Threatens Legal Action Elon Musk

Twitter Accuses Meta of ‘Willful and Unlawful’ Intellectual Theft After Threads Launch, Threatens Legal Action

Elon Musk’s lawyer calls the new Instagram app a ”copycat“ that relies on stolen trade secrets Getty Images Twitter lawyer and Elon Musk’s personal lawyer Alex Spiro sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, saying Meta Platforms has engaged in “systematic, willful, and unlawful…
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July 6, 2023
Twitter spooked by Threads, threatens to sue Meta for hiring employees after Musk fired everyone Elon Musk

Twitter spooked by Threads, threatens to sue Meta for hiring employees after Musk fired everyone

ICYMI, Elon Musk spent $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter and fired most of the company. A lot has happened since then, to say the least. Now Twitter is threatening to sue Meta for supposedly hiring employees that Musk fired and building a competitive platform. Semafor has the scoop…
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July 6, 2023
: Google reportedly culls tweet links from search results after Elon Musk announces daily ‘rate limit’ for Twitter users Elon Musk

: Google reportedly culls tweet links from search results after Elon Musk announces daily ‘rate limit’ for Twitter users

Elon Musk is limiting the daily number of tweets users can read, he announced Saturday after thousands of users reported problems trying to access the social-media app. In a tweet Saturday afternoon, Musk said that verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. For unverified accounts, the number drops drastically…
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July 4, 2023
Meta’s Twitter clone expected Thursday as Elon Musk drives users away with tech issues and new limits Elon Musk

Meta’s Twitter clone expected Thursday as Elon Musk drives users away with tech issues and new limits

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is close to debuting his “sanely run” competitor to Twitter. The owner of Facebook and Instagram will launch “Threads,” a text-based social media platform that will compete with Twitter, on Thursday, according to a new listing on Apple’s app store posted on Monday afternoon. The app…
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July 4, 2023