Twitter claimed in a legal document filed on Sunday, which was originally reported by The New York Times, that some of the source code, the fundamental computer code that powers the social network, had been posted online.
According to a legal document submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Twitter had requested that the software development hosting website GitHub remove the code that had been placed there. According to the lawsuit, the platform complied and stated that the content had been disabled. Additionally, Twitter asked the court to name the alleged infringer or infringers who uploaded Twitter’s source code on GitHub-run servers without the company’s consent.
The San Francisco-based Twitter stated in the petition that the postings violate its copyrights.
Elon Musk, the billionaire who purchased Twitter last October for $44 billion and then took the firm private, faces new difficulties as a result of the leak. Since then, it has descended into disarray as a result of widespread layoffs and the exodus of advertising.
According to documents disclosed in a congressional report, the Federal Trade Commission is looking into Musk’s mass firings at Twitter and attempting to access his internal communications as part of an ongoing investigation into the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices.