By Natalia Rueda 
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, leaders in the world of technology, are on the brink of a legal battle over the rights to the newly launched social media platform “Threads”. In an accusation made public yesterday, Musk claims that Zuckerberg and his team at META Platforms have been using Twitter’s trade secrets to create Threads, a product that similarly allows the sharing of messages and republishing of content.
In a letter issued through his lawyers, Musk announced his intention to ‘strictly enforce’ his intellectual property rights and demanded ‘immediate action’ from Mark Zuckerberg’s team to stop using Twitter’s trade secrets. To fight back from the accusations, Zuckerberg’s firm pointed out that the restrictions put on the platform by Twitter were reversed by Musk in order to allow independent access on a “temporary” basis. This critique was quickly met with a verbal threat of legal action by Elon Musk.
Threads was unveiled last Wednesday and is quickly becoming a major player in the social media arena. with over 30 million users in less than 24 hours of its release, connected with other META platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, Threads has been viewed by many as a breath of fresh air. It offers a faster, more modern version of Twitter which happens to coincide with the criticisms of Twitter in recent months.
The stakes are high as the court case will determine who has the authority to use the intellectual property shared by both parties. With two titans of technology locked in a struggle for supremacy, the world will be watching this case closely in the weeks and months ahead.