Tarek Mansour

And, I mean, what you saw with Elon, right, is, like, obviously a bunch of people in the media left, including many of my peers and close friends in the media who, to be honest, like, kind of made me feel like shit for staying on X. Same here.

Yeah.

It became like a, it is a political thing.

And, you know, you had blue sky happen, you had threads happen.

And this diaspora now where everyone's kind of spread out.

And like I wrote in this interview, and now I check three apps a day instead of one to find out what's going on in the world.

And that hasn't changed, you know, three years.

It's crazy to think like it's been basically three years since Elon bought Twitter, which is wild.

And Nikita basically just outlined with me that, you know,

They're making changes in the products that he thinks will hopefully incentivize people to come back.

That's a new link viewer that is driving more traffic to web pages.

I can attest to that personally.

So he says that's not happening.

There's not no shadow banning of like certain link domains.

No, that was a direct Elon ban.

And the interesting backstory to that at the time when that happened, that was again around the acquisition, was Elon was trying to buy Substack.

He was actually trying to pitch Chris Best, the CEO, on being the CEO of a de facto CEO.

I mean, Elon's obviously the real CEO, but the de facto CEO of Twitter.

So there was, I think, some more stuff going on in the background there.

But yeah, they were doing that.