Musk Sends Cease and Desist to Zuckerberg Over Meta's New Twitter Killer Threads
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Musk Sends Cease and Desist to Zuckerberg Over Meta’s New ‘Twitter Killer’ Threads – Can a Lawsuit be Far Behind?

Cagematch shmagematch; we predict that it won’t be long before Elon Musk sues Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. Musk does appear to be ready to take his beef with Zuckerberg to the courts instead of the street, sending Mark Zuckerberg a cease and desist letter with claims that Meta’s new Threads app, which many have been calling a ‘Twitter killer’, uses Twitter’s intellectual property. Here’s the full text of the letter from Elon Musk (well, his lawyers) to Mark Zuckerberg.

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Walking Dead Fan Website Threatened by AMC

One of the top Walking Dead spoiler fan sites, The Spoiling Dead Fans, has received a cease and desist letter from AMC’s lawyers over concerns that the site would post spoilers as to who was the ‘Lucille victim’ in the season 6 finale of The Walking Dead. (AMC stands for American Multi-Cinema, and the full name of the company is American Multi-Cinema Film Holdings.) AMC is, of course, the network that distributes The Walking Dead.

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Web “Suicide Machine” Service that Helps You Unsub from All Social Media Gets Cease and Desist from Facebook

The so-called Web 2.0 Suicide Machine – a service provided by Moddr that lets you delete all of your social media accounts at once (or as they put it, “delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego”) – has certainly gotten the attention of Facebook. It started with Facebook blocking the IP addresses of the social networking suicide machine and similar services, however now Facebook has taken the much more aggressive action of sending the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine a Cease and Desist letter. Which means that Facebook is prepared to sue someone for helping people who don’t want to be on Facebook close their Facebook accounts.