Matt Taibbi, who labored on the “Twitter Recordsdata” with Elon Musk, has stated that the X proprietor “proved to be very disappointing on the free speech situation.”
Musk has repeatedly claimed to be a “free speech absolutist,” whereas shadowbans, unexplained suspensions, and erratically enforced guidelines have continued.
Taibbi mentioned the difficulty throughout an look on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” Friday.
“I do imagine that Elon proved to be very disappointing on the free speech situation,” Taibbi stated. “All of us who labored on the Twitter Recordsdata felt the identical approach. We went in feeling tremendously optimistic that he really meant loads of the issues that he stated about being in favor of all authorized speech and, being a free speech absolutist and all these different issues.”
“That proved to not be the case. He’s presently disenfranchising hundreds of Substack writers, together with together with me. And nobody appears to care within the press,” Taibbi continued.
In February, Taibbi posted weird textual content messages from Musk by which he appeared upset that the journalist was persevering with to put in writing on Substack.
“Elon, am I being shadowbanned?” the dialog begins.
Since @elonmusk printed components of those conversations, I’d as nicely embody others. I used to be underneath a “blanket search ban” at one level and loads of my 1.9 million followers nonetheless don’t see my content material. https://t.co/vFRtJFierF pic.twitter.com/k29MFxLUTC
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 15, 2024
“We went on lockdown after discovering that Substack had stolen an enormous quantity of our information to prepopulate their Twitter rip-off,” Musk replied.
“Appears to be like like there may be nonetheless a blanket search ban. Must be mounted by tomorrow,” Musk continued. “Going ahead, tweets with Substack is not going to seem in For You except it’s paid promoting, identical to FB/Insta/and many others. They may seem in ‘Following.’”
“Elon, I’ve repeatedly declined to criticize you and don’t have anything to do together with your beef with Substack,” Taibbi wrote. “Is there a motive why I’m being put in the course of issues? This actually appears loopy.”
“You’re useless to me,” Musk replied. “Please get off Twitter and simply keep on Substack.”