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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Johana Bhuiyan in New York

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Twitter threatens to sue meta over threads app report - You Need To See This

illustration of threads app over elon musk's twitter account
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly billed as a rival, claiming the company has violated Twitter’s “intellectual property rights”.

In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, first published by the news outlet Semafor, a lawyer for Twitter said the company “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.

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