In a tweet about the apparent Substack restriction on April 8, Elon Musk said, among other things, “turns out Matt is/was an employee of Substack,” though it’s unclear what he was trying to imply with that statement. Fast-forward two days, and in response to a tweet posted in a conversation thread under Michael Shellenberger — also a Twitter Files writer — Musk shared a couple of screenshots of DMs he had exchanged with Taibbi. In them, Taibbi described himself as a Substack employee, to which Musk asked if he was, in fact, an employee, prompting clarification from Taibbi, who said he is loyal to Substack and that his subscribers over there are collectively his “employer.”
TwitterMusk has since deleted the screenshots, though there’s no shortage of criticism over his decision to share them publicly in the first place. Meanwhile, Musk claimed in a tweet posted in the conversation on Monday that Substack was “illegally downloading vast amounts of data to pre-populate their Twitter clone,” blaming the temporary restrictions on that. For its part, Substack publicly thanked Twitter for reversing its actions, noting in a separate tweet that it doesn’t consider its upcoming Notes platform a direct Twitter competitor.
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