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As of today (or yesterday?) if a tweet includes a link to a substack.com URL the tweet cannot be liked, retweeted or replied to. Likes will appear to work and then disappear. They can still be "quote tweeted".

It's pretty funny because the individuals that Musk hand picked to give the "Twitter files" to all use Substack. They all embarrassed themselves by stretching what was mostly nothing into a huge story seemingly on his behalf before he turned his back on them.




Adding context: this follows Substack launching a Twitter-like short-messaging product.


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But "scare quotes" are effective! And better than that, they're "scary".


> mostly nothing

Mostly is doing a lot of work there. Just the Federal government working with a private entity to censor speech in a clear abuse of power.




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