Elon Musk\u0027s X shake-up: no more headlines on news links
Instead of seeing a headline along with a picture, X users now see only a picture with a small watermark.Elon Musk's social media platform X has stripped headlines from news articles shared by users, in a move likely to further worsen relations with media groups.
Musk took over Twitter last year in a $44 billion deal and has since renamed it X, sacked thousands of staff and drawn criticism for allowing banned conspiracy theorists and extremists back on the platform, sending advertisers fleeing. When the changes to links were first mooted in August, Musk posted:"This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics."Instead of seeing a headline along with a picture, users now see only a picture with a small watermark.
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