Elon Musk Unfollows Twitter Files Hero Matt Taibbi After Reporter Ditches Platform

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk unfollowed reporter Matt Taibbi, who was the most prominent purveyor of the so-called “Twitter Files,” after the journalist announced he would no longer use the social media platform because it restricted sharing links to content on Substack, where Taibbi writes.

Taibbi said he will ditch Twitter and stick with publishing on Substack, which this week said it will roll out Substack Notes – a forthcoming platform whose look appears similar to Twitter, according to screenshots release by the company. It would seem Musk’s platform regards Notes as a potential threat.

First, some Substack authors started noticing issues with embedding tweets in Substack articles. Later, errors in tweets that have Substack links showed up when Twitter users complained about the first issue.

After noticing the restrictions on Twitter, Taibbi emailed his Substack subscribers that the newsletter platform has become a “hostile rival” to Musk’s social media company.

Due to the decision to side with Substack, Taibbi noted he likely will not be able to publish any more Twitter Files dumps because one of the conditions of publishing that material was to deliver the information on Musk’s platform.

Musk has not commented on the matter of losing one of the reporters who was viciously questioned when invited to testify on Capitol Hill about Twitter.