Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor
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The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

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.

  • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
    96·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • fubo@lemmy.world
      56·
      1 year ago

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

    • g0nz0li0@lemmy.world
      181·
      1 year ago

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

    • art@lemmy.ml
      152·
      1 year ago

      Those people we fired should have to starve to death.
      ~Elon, Probably

    • Kaidao@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      “If you don’t want to work like a slave, then leave! … no not like that”