Everything Musk Says Is A Lie: Substack CEO

A day after Matt Taibbi—whom the billionaire CEO Elon Musk selected to publicize the so-called Twitter Files---suddenly and publicly abandoned Twitter, Musk slammed his former golden boy as a liar, and an “employee” of Substack, whose working operations he went on to criticize.

Photo Insert: (L to R) Substack co-founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi

Next, the co-founder and CEO of Substack, Chris Best, took to social media to claim none of what Musk had contended was true, including his claim that Taibbi was a Substack employee, Justin Rohrlich reported for The Daily Beast.

Many have slammed Musk’s moves at Twitter, saying those moves are motivated by Musk’s ego, and others simply as flat-footed and unpopular attempts at making Twitter profitable.

On Friday, Musk—who was reportedly upset about a new feature Substack is introducing which could be seen as a Twitter competitor—pushed out a code tweak that prevented users from engaging with anything having to do with Substack.

That meant people were blocked from liking, pinning, retweeting, or replying to tweets containing Substack links. On Saturday, Best called Musk’s move “very frustrating.”

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