If what Musk is saying is true, an 'airtight NDA' could have prevented ex-Twitter employees from 'using his ideas,' employment expert claims
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, is stealing his ideas by launching Meta’s new Threads application.
Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations, according to its website. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length.
Launching Threads, Zuckerberg said, “The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands. I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success.
“That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently,” according to a report from The Guardian.
Threads had reached 100 million users by Monday, according to reports.
Musk may have taken things personally, with tweets saying: “Zuck is a cuck” and “I propose a literal dick-measuring contest.”
However, the Twitter executive has also threatened to sue the Facebook chief, with his personal lawyer Alex Spiro sending a cease and desist letter to the Meta CEO and Facebook founder.
The letter claims Meta used “Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property” to build the new app, according to a Daily Mail report. Musk also claimed that Zuckerberg's company hired “dozens of former Twitter employees” and claimed some of them had “improperly retained Twitter...
The lawsuit claims the companies exceeded the $4 million limit for second-draw loans available to a single corporate group. A private firm, Blockquote Inc., originally filed the suit under the Fal...