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Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Poaching? Didn't Twitter drive out or lay off or fire nearly all their employees? You can't get rid of people and then complain when they go work for somebody you don't like.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Elon, next week: "Layoffs are free speech, but hiring the discarded rejects of another Employer is dumpster-diving and therefore theft."

[–] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

“We may have fired our staff and blocked our customers from accessing Twitter content, but they are still ours.” -Elon Musk

[–] arthur@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Those people we fired should have to starve to death.
~Elon, Probably

[–] Kaidao@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

"If you don't want to work like a slave, then leave! .... no not like that"