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Twitter’s lawyers have threatened Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with legal action, claiming Meta used “trade secrets” and “highly confidential information” it gathered from disgruntled former Twitter staff to build competing app Threads which launched on Thursday morning. In the letter, first reported by Semafor, lawyer Alex Spiro claims Meta had “engaged in systemic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”. “Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees,” the letter says. Musk notoriously fired staff who were critical of his approach to running the company he bought for $61 billion (US$44 billion) last year. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing,” Stone said.