Elon Musk is threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta over the launch of the corporate’s new social media platform Threads.

Threads, an alterative to Twitter that’s linked to Instagram, launched this week with a multitude of celebrities signing on to present it their stamp of approval.

Nevertheless, Elon, the proprietor of Twitter, seems to be lower than enthused by the brand new competitors. He’s now threatening with a lawsuit and trying to make a case.

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Variety famous {that a} lawyer for Twitter despatched Meta a cease-and-desist letter taking concern with the newly launched platform. The letter accuses Threads of copying Twitter and utilizing “commerce secrets and techniques” obtained from former Twitter workers to launch.

“Twitter intends to strictly implement its mental property rights, and calls for that Meta take quick steps to cease utilizing any Twitter commerce secrets and techniques or different extremely confidential info,” the letter reads.

The grievance stems from the allegation that Meta introduced on “dozens of Twitter workers.” In fact, you’ll seemingly recall that Elon fired a big portion of the corporate’s workers when he took over final yr. There have been even studies that he made a determined try and bring some of them back.

In a tweet, Elon seemingly accused Meta of “dishonest” with their launch.

In the meantime, Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Meta, took to Threads to disclaim the allegations. “Nobody on the Threads engineering workforce is a former Twitter worker — that’s simply not a factor,” he wrote.

We’ll hold you up to date because the scenario evolves.

In case you had been unaware, Mark shared his first tweet in over a decade earlier this week, but it surely wasn’t to assist Twitter.