Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading

Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO’s conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday. Taibbi, who worked on the so-called Twitter Files, announced he was quitting Twitter on Friday after the social media platform severely hampered the sharing of Substack content. And Musk is calling Taibbi a liar.

“Substack links were never blocked. Matt’s statement is false,” Musk tweeted on Saturday.

Musk insists Twitter never blocked links to Substack posts, which might be technically true in some sense, but doesn’t tell the whole story. In reality, Twitter has put up numerous roadblocks for anyone trying to visit Substack posts, even displaying a warning that links to Substack may be unsafe.