Guest Post by Alex Berenson
The world’s most interesting billionaire has developed a love-hate relationship with Twitter – and anyone who stands up to him
Elon Musk is tired.
He’s been tired, and making mistakes, ever since he wrapped himself up in the tar baby (trigger alert) that is Twitter. Along the way he’s lost $24 billion on the little bird, by his own estimate.
Now Musk has made his worst mistake yet.
On Thursday, he picked a fight with Substack, a company one-one-thousandth Twitter’s size. Then he doubled down by attacking Matt Taibbi, a veteran investigative reporter who has done months of work at Musk’s invitation on the Twitter Files, the effort to open Twitter’s archives to examine how governments, non-profits, and companies tried to force Twitter to censor tweets and ban users.
In 48 hours, Musk has burned up what’s left of his credibility as a free speech champion. And he’s ensured the mainstream media will forever treat the Twitter Files – a key reason he bought Twitter – as a joke.
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