Twitter CEO Elon Musk with a frown and an eyebrow raised wears a white bowtie and black suit jacket, right, and Substack CEO Chris Best stares blankly ahead while wearing a gray shirt, left.
  • 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.

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.