A journalist who published an internal document 'Twitter file' due to an argument with Elon Musk is shadowed



Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter, and an internal document 'Twitter file' that summarizes the measures and processing that had been done on Twitter until then was released. It was journalist Matt Taibi who released this Twitter file, but it is reported that the relationship with Mr. Mask became worse due to the problem of Substack, and the relationship with Mr. Mask was dissolved.

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Mr. Mask argued that `` Twitter is doing politically biased measures '' before acquiring Twitter. Immediately after Mr. Mask acquired Twitter, an internal document supporting Mr. Mask's claims was released as a 'Twitter file' through Mr. Taibi's Twitter account.

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In addition to Twitter, Mr. Taibi, a journalist, also publishes a newsletter called ' Racket News ', which delivers information to more than 360,000 subscribers. The newsletter platform Substack, which Taibi publishes 'Racket News', announced a function similar to Twitter called 'Notes' on April 5, 2023, and suddenly Twitter's embedded tag stopped working. An incident has happened.

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In addition, it was also reported that tweets containing Substack links were retaliated by displaying a warning that they were 'unsafe' and temporarily banning likes and retweets.

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On Twitter, Taibi testified that the string of restrictions on Substack was due to the controversy surrounding the Notes feature. At this time, 'When I asked why,' Mr. Taibi said, but it is not clear who asked.



In response to Taibi's tweet, Mr. Mask said, ``Substack's link is not blocked, so Mr. Taibi's statement is incorrect. Substack was trying to bootstrap a Twitter clone, so the IP address is unreliable.'' He further said, 'Mr. Taibi was an employee of Substack.'



After that, Substack's official Twitter account tweeted on April 9, 2023 that Twitter's restrictions on Substack were removed.



However, it seems that the relationship between Mr. Mask and Mr. Taibi has become bad due to this Substack case. On April 9, 2023, it was found that the thread of the Twitter file compiled by Mr. Taibi will no longer be hit by Twitter's search system. It also turned out that Mr. Taibi's account itself was also shadowbanned.



Mr. Musk published the following private exchange with Mr. Taibi on Signal, a cryptographic messaging app, on Twitter. In this exchange, Mr. Taibi asked Mr. Mask, ``I want you to fix the Twitter file no longer hits in the search,'' and Mr. Mask said, ``I will fix it tomorrow.''



In addition, Mr. Mask asked Mr. Taibi, 'Are you working at Substack?' “I am not a Substack employee, I am a Substack Pro writer who earns a subscription fee for Substack’s newsletter, part of which is paid in advance in lieu of paying Substack,” Taibi explained. I'm here. At the time of writing the article, Mr. Mask has already deleted the screenshot of this exchange.

After that, it was found on April 11, 2023 that Mr. Mask had unfollowed the account of the person involved in the Twitter file, including Mr. Taibi.



In addition, Substack CEO Chris Best denies Mr. Mask's tweet content.

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