{"id":1966624,"date":"2023-07-07T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-to-meta-after-discovering-their-dirty-trick\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:59:23","slug":"cheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-to-meta-after-discovering-their-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-to-meta-after-discovering-their-dirty-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Exposes Meta&#8217;s Deception in Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-to-meta-after-discovering-their-dirty-trick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966624&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kruta-joe-biden-is-more-interested-in-fighting-republicans-than-dealing-with-outside-enemies\/\" title=\"KRUTA: Joe Biden Is More Interested In Fighting Republicans Than Dealing With Outside Enemies\">strongly worded letter<\/a>, Twitter threatens to sue Meta for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-partners-at-firm-hired-to-review-lincoln-project-scandal-have-donated-thousands-to-group\/\" title=\"Senior Partners at Firm Hired to \u2018Review\u2019 Lincoln Project Scandal Have Donated Thousands to Group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-is-really-running-the-biden-gang-its-not-joe-biden-so-who-could-it-be\/\" title=\"Who Is Really Running the Biden Gang?  It\u2019s Not Joe Biden, So Who Could It Be?\">intellectual property<\/a> theft<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In a letter dated July 5, Elon Musk&#8217;s attorney, Alex Spiro, has warned Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Twitter is prepared to take legal action against Meta for its alleged &#8220;systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation&#8221; of intellectual property. The letter claims that numerous former Twitter employees, now working for Meta, have illegally used Twitter documents and electronic devices to create Threads, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-to-meta-after-discovering-their-dirty-trick\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Exposes Meta's Deception in Letter\">copycat app recently launched<\/a> by Meta.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also highlights a clause in Twitter&#8217;s terms of service that prohibits the crawling or scraping of Twitter&#8217;s followers or following data, suggesting that Twitter had suspicions about Meta&#8217;s activities. The letter demands that Meta immediately cease using any Twitter trade secrets or confidential information, with the implication that a civil lawsuit will follow if Meta fails to comply.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk summarized Twitter&#8217;s stance in a tweet, stating, &#8220;Competition is fine, cheating is not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Competition is fine, cheating is not<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1677042708756439041?\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The below is a leak of the letter sent by Spiro to Meta, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/semafor?\">@semafor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations center on trade secrets shared by ex-Twitter employees hired by Meta, but also hints that Meta may have been scraping Twitter&#8217;s data in violation of the terms of service. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lo6usdsM7Q\">pic.twitter.com\/Lo6usdsM7Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T(w)itter Daily News \uea00 (@TitterDaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TitterDaily\/status\/1677025049478582281?\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter founder Jack Dorsey joined the conversation, borrowing a quote from venture capitalist Peter Thiel that was originally aimed at Twitter. Dorsey tweeted, &#8220;We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones,&#8221; in response to a tweet comparing Twitter to similar copycat apps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWe wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MavyysZCcP\">https:\/\/t.co\/MavyysZCcP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jack (@jack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1677009482076020737?\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk responded with the &#8220;face with tears of joy&#8221; emoji, indicating laughter, to a tweet suggesting that Threads&#8217; coding was simply copied and pasted from existing material.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1676783253766676483?\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to a tweet criticizing the Threads logo, Musk replied, &#8220;Metaphorically too.&#8221; This comparison is fitting if Twitter&#8217;s allegations are true, as tapeworms are known parasites.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Metaphorically too<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1677043277759954945?\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meta has not yet responded to the letter, but a company spokesperson, Andy Stone, denied the allegations on social media. Stone stated that no former Twitter employees are part of the Threads engineering team.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cheating-elon-musk-sends-letter-meta-discovering-dirty-trick\/\">&#8216;Cheating&#8217;: Elon Musk Sends Letter to Meta After Discovering Their Dirty Trick<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s attorney, Alex Spiro, has sent a stern letter to Meta, threatening legal action for their alleged unauthorized use of intellectual property. Dated July 5 and directed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the letter claims that numerous ex-Twitter employees at Meta have unlawfully kept Twitter documents. 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