The Feud Between Elon Musk's Twitter and Substack Explained – Business Insider

Twitter users began noticing Substack links were being suppressed beginning Thursday evening.  Musk denied the links were “blocked” but said he believed that Substack was “unsafe.” Substack CEO Chris Best pushed back on Musk’s assertions Saturday evening. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Over the past few days, a war between subscription-based blogging website Substack and microblogging platform Twitter has been brewing — with the CEOs of both platforms publicly responding to the controversy. Following the news that Twitter began suppressing links to Substack on its platform, CEO Chris Best responded to Twitter owner Elon Musk calling the situation “very frustrating” and denounced some of the claims that Musk made about the company.One of these claims is that Substack was trying to “download a massive portion of the Twitter database,” Musk wrote on Twitter Saturday, to help support its recently announced Twitter competitor, Substack Notes. Twitter previously suppressed links in December to competing social media platform Mastodon. As of Saturday evening, the warning labels had disappeared, but searches were still being redirected, Insider found.”We’re glad to see that the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter appears to be
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