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Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi seem to have had a severe falling-out. Taibbi will no longer participate in Twitter Files reporting, and suggested he’ll leave the platform altogether next week to join Substack Notes.
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Who’s really surprised that a billionaire is a backstabber? This is The Scorpion and the Frog, y’all.
Matt Taibbi is a phenomenal journalist, but he also seems gravely naive when it comes to anticipating bad-faith actors using/targeting him (Musk & Hasan, respectively). Maybe he’s just too honest of a soul and can’t see evil intent because he genuinely doesn’t understand the mentality behind it? Idk, but dude needs someone to teach him a little street smarts to shield himself from stuff like this and that hatchet job Mehdi Hasan pulled.
I think Elon cares about free speech, when it's convenient to him. Sadly, that's most people.
Don’t use any of this stupid shit.
musk is a trojan horse.
EVERYONE LEAVE TWITTER.
You don't become a billionaire by having empathy for others.
Elon Musk is a P.O.S. He just made another enemy.
"I don't know what the f— this Substack Notes thing is." In the next breath: "It's not a competitor to Twitter in the least. [That's] absurd." 🙄 Uh, okay. 🙄
But: "Substack is getting a new tweet-like feature called “Notes,” the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will let users publish small posts about things like “posts, quotes, comments, images, and links,” according to a blog post from Substack co-founders Chris Best [et al]." —The Verge, April 5.
Quacks like a duck. Twitter rival, plain and simple.
Personally, I think Elon musk made the offer for Twitter because at the same time the amber heard/Johnny Depp trial was going on and he didn’t want his name being associated with that debacle.
Ive said it before, and ill say it again, Elon will break your hearts💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
elon's simply a fed
You gentlemen are pretty great. It's homey here. Thought I should start with the nice comment and then the snarky. Elon Musk is year of the Pig in its most immature selfish state. His Chinese sign nailed it. They can also be bringers of truth and light like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Sorry if it's eye-rolling. It's just kind of fun.😊
Never trusted Elon Musk he is not a multi BILLIONAIRE by playing nice. Wealthy people CANT be trusted
Mini-dictator Ellen Musk was angered by Taibbi not defending his actions with respect to India.
Elon Musk is a gigantic phony
🐮🔔🐮🔔🐮🔔🐮🔔🐮🔔🐮🔔🐮
Monopoly is the ultimate goal of capitalism.
I guess there goes the employee's discount on Matt's new Tesla…
Taibbi is cream and will always float to the top. Musk was never anybody's friend, he wants to put a chip in your brain ffs.
You all act surprised when a billionaire is a no-conscious, amoral, back stabbing scmbag.
Sounds like Elong is trying to do to twatter what Steve Jobs did to apple.
Hoping Matt lands on his feet after the dust settles.
If Elon wants to compete with substack, he should expand Twitter to include a long-form publishing component, and offer Taibbi a bunch of money to come publish there. I'm a paid subscriber to Matt's substack, and I love his journalism, but spitting his reporting out one tweet at a time is just not the best format for his writing. Sounds like Elon thought he could get Matt to switch over to reporting on twitter exclusively through bully tactics instead of actually offering something that people might want.