After a new product announcement this week, links to Substack from tweets have been subject to a variety of seemingly punitive actions and tweet embeds stopped working in Substack posts, leading to face of the Twitter Files Matt Taibbi announcing he is leaving Elon Musk’s app for good. But Musk says the claims made about the feud are “false” and implied Taibbi had a financial stake in making them.
In a Substack chat and subsequent post, Taibbi said that the steps taken by Twitter against Substack this week left him little choice but to leave the former for the latter permanently, even though doing so “will come with a price as far as any future Twitter Files reports are concerned.”
Taibbi said in his remarks that he learned Friday “Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.”
In a tweet on Saturday, Musk called that statement “false” and said the journalist is an “employee” of Substack — a remark that is curiously close to the accusation Taibbi is bought and paid for, which charge Democrats like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz repeatedly leveled at the writer during his defense of the Twitter Files before congress.
1. Substack links were never blocked. Matt’s statement is false.
2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.
3. Turns out Matt is/was an employee of Substack.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2023
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