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Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Substack snit

Elon Musk and one in all his “Twitter Information” writers, Matt Taibbi, don’t appear to be on nice phrases proper now, and that scenario most likely isn’t getting any higher after Musk posted then deleted a DM dialog between the 2 of them.

Let me attempt to recap how we acquired so far. I’m warning you now that it’s a little bit of a multitude.

These DMs at the moment are deleted, however we saved them, if you wish to look:

Picture: Elon Musk, in a now-deleted tweet

Picture: Elon Musk, in a now-deleted tweet

Musk, in what seems to be a Sign chat, asks Taibbi: “You’re employed at Substack?” Taibbi explains that his subscribers pay him and that he was one of many first “Substack Professional” writers, who got an upfront cost for a yr in return for giving Substack 85 p.c of subscription income. Taibbi additionally asks if Twitter will repair a problem the place his Twitter Information threads have been being deleted, and Musk says that can occur.

You’ll be able to see the place the DMs have been eliminated by scrolling up this thread or from the tweet beneath, the place Musk claims that Substack was “illegally downloading huge quantities of knowledge to pre-populate their Twitter clone.” (Finest denied the same declare over the weekend.)

Finally, the DMs aren’t that salacious. However it’s a worrying signal that Musk, the most-followed particular person on Twitter, is prepared to only publish what Taibbi probably anticipated to be personal conversations. It’s additionally a curious wrinkle on Musk’s acknowledged intention to make Twitter DMs encrypted. Encryption isn’t as helpful for anybody who DMs him if he may simply publish a screenshot of the dialog anyway. Alternatively, it will imply that even the proprietor of Twitter can’t simply peek into your personal messages to seize materials for his subsequent thread.


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