Elon Musk apparently on the outs with Matt Taibbi over Twitter-Substack feud

There’s enough happening at Twitter today for a whole season of an HBO drama.The relationship between Elon Musk and his lead Twitter Files writer has ended over Musk’s decision to block interactions on tweets that include links to Substack.As a result of Twitter’s actions against Substack today, writer Matt Taibbi has left Twitter and said he will solely be using Substack going forward. In response, Musk unfollowed Taibbi’s Twitter account. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Earlier today, Mashable reported that Twitter was seemingly blocking all interactions on tweets that included links to the newsletter platform Substack. Many Twitter users run newsletters through Substack, including Matt Taibbi, the writer Elon Musk hand picked to lead coverage of the Twitter Files. For those who haven’t been following, the Twitter Files are Musk’s curated internal documents from before he took over the company that supposedly show various levels of government interference or bias from previous Twitter executives. (We should note that what has been released shows basic content moderation policies being acted on without anything nefarious going on. While one can certainly disagree with Twitter’s policy decisions, the released documents do not prove that any government agencies forced the company’s hand.) Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Interestingly, the feud between Taibbi and Musk comes just one day after the former appeared on MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan’s cable news shot where Hasan pressed Taibbi on various errors in his Twitter Files reporting. During the show,…Elon Musk apparently on the outs with Matt Taibbi over Twitter-Substack feud