Twitter Cease and Desist?

Did the Media just sweep this sto­ry under the dirty car­pet?

What did the media get wrong about the Twit­ter cease and desist let­ter. 

Today we saw sev­er­al media reports about a news sto­ry that seemed to sug­gest that some­thing might be wrong about the new Meta / Face­book new app called threads which essen­tial­ly is some­thing like twit­ter. 

Watch­ing the news cov­er­age you have to ask do these talk­ing bob­ble heads on the news real­ly under­stand the top­ic of con­ver­sa­tion?

Obvi­ous­ly the answer is No they do not under­stand what the cease and desist let­ter is about and it showed clear­ly that they did not under­stand because they did not or were not able to answer or ask the right ques­tions. 

When you do not under­stand the news sto­ry then how can you pos­si­bly under­stand how to ask the right ques­tions?

You cant either because you do not have the knowl­edge or you inten­tion­al­ly are being obtuse about what the real news sto­ry is all about. 

We can hope that Fox News was being obtuse about the cov­er­age of this sto­ry because it cer­tain­ly did not look like they under­stood what was behind the cease and desist let­ter. 

The news media are ignor­ing the goril­la in the room here and instead sug­gest­ing that any law­suit would be an uphill bat­tle… 

So, the media in its inten­tion­al cov­er­age does not men­tion any­thing about what might be a real issue and instead focus­ing on stat­ing a legal opin­ion of sorts. 

They seem to want to sug­gest that the cease and desist let­ter is not a big deal but what if they are wrong?

What if we looked at this news sto­ry and took it at face val­ue?

What if the news media are wrong about this sto­ry… 

If you were to take the sto­ry at face val­ue and then take it a step fur­ther and lets say that there may be actu­al fac­tion evi­dence that for­mer twit­ter employ­ees trans­ferred (pro­tect­ed reg­is­tered tech­nol­o­gy) to Face­book / Meta and then that com­pa­ny used that infor­ma­tion and or pro­gram­ming in the devel­op­ment of the prod­uct in ques­tion then this might be a com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent sto­ry… 

If the cease and desist let­ter is accu­rate then would this be the first time that Meta / Face­book engaged in a form of theft or improp­er­ly bor­row­ing tech­nol­o­gy?

That would be a big fat NO… 

No, this is not the first time that Face­book has alleged­ly engaged in behav­ior that could be con­sid­ered behav­ing rather stu­pid­ly… 

Insert image of let­ter here. 

You can read the (alleged) copy of what might be the let­ter sent to Facebook/ meta. 

(Reports are that this is accu­rate but with the way the inter­net works we don’t know for sure) 

IF this let­ter is accu­rate then this could be a real prob­lem for Meta. 

Of course it appears that the media are not real­ly doing much in report­ing this sto­ry and instead they appear to dis­miss the sto­ry with­out actu­al­ly cov­er­ing the actu­al alleged facts in the let­ter and that seems like a real prob­lem for the media. 

They tried to just sweep it under the rug at least that would appear to be the case.. 

But What IF….