BREAKING: Elon Musk's 'X Corp' Threatens Lawsuit Over 'Meta's copycat 'Threads' app'

Zuck had to see this one coming. Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman & CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and now 'Threads on Instagram' was sent notice Wednesday that he may face a lawsuit for intellectual property infringement.

In a letter leaked to the media legal counsel representing Musk threatened a lawsuit could follow for Meta's "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property."

Executive Producer of The Benny Show and TurningPoint USA Ambassador Alex Lorusso posted a copy of the letter from X Corp to Meta on Twitter Thursday, captioned: "X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter clone 'Threads' in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg for engaging in 'systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.'"

In the letter, X Corp. alleges, "Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees. Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter; that these employees ad and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter; and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices."

Then they dropped the proverbial bomb, 
 

"With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta's copycat "Threads" app with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Met'as competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees ongoing obligations to Twitter."

The letter was unambiguous regarding X Corp's intent, "Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information."

In a note that could provide some insight into Musk's recent limitation of post reads on Twitter that causes major consternation over the weekend the letter added, "Further, Meta is expressly prohibited from engaging in any crawling or scraping of Twitter's followers or following data. As set forth in Twitter's Terms of Service, crawling any /twitter services - including, but not limited to, any Twitter websites, SMS, APIs, email notifcaiions, applications, buttons, widgets, ads, and commerce services - is permissible only "if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file"

X Corp goes on to state, "Scraping any Twitter services is expressly prohibited for any reason without Twitter's prior consent."

On July 1st Elon Musk implemented the controversial read restrictions on Twitter explaining the move was "To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation."

While the theoretical cage fight between Musk and Zuckerberg has dominated the newsfeeds (DC Enquirer's included), the greater battle brewing could be a legal one between the two of the three social media giants of the 21st Century. Such a clash of the titans hearkens back to Google v. Microsoft or Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, and could be just as lengthy, costly, and ugly.

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