Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Meta over Threads

Threads app.
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Threads, Meta's response to Twitter, has been live for just about 24 hours and it's already stirring up some legal trouble.

Per reports from both ABC News and Semafor, Twitter's legal team has allegedly accused Meta of "deliberately" copying the Twitter application and poaching former Twitter employees to do so.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.