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the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in a California court by Anthony
Pompliano, who earlier worked with Facebook Inc, also alleged he
was fired for being a whistleblower, the magazine reported.
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Snap Inc, Snapchat's parent company, rejected the allegations.
"We've reviewed the complaint. It has no merit. It is totally
made up by a disgruntled former employee," a Snap spokeswoman
told Reuters in an emailed statement.
The ex-employee, who led Snapchat's growth team during his three
weeks with the company, said he learned of misrepresentations
and urged executives to rectify the problems. Pompliano claimed
he was pressurized to breach Facebook's confidential and
proprietary information, the magazine said.
"Snapchat fraudulently induced Pompliano away from Facebook to
run Snapchat's new user growth and engagement team by falsely
representing to him, among other things, the company's growth,"
the Hollywood Reporter quoted his counsel as saying in the court
document, a partially obscured copy of which was posted on the
magazine's website.
Snapchat filed for an IPO in November and is one step closer to
the biggest U.S. stock market debut since 2014.
The case was filed in the Superior Court of the State of
California for the County of Los Angeles.
(Reporting by Rama Venkat Raman and Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru;
Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)
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