Elon Musk continues to make unexpected changes to the social network X. Now he has decided to eliminate headlines that link to media news. According to the founder of Tesla and owner of
From now on, X will only show the main image, which also serves as a link to the news. The publications only show the main image of the article and this, in turn, serves directly as a link to the news. That is, users will be able to enter the article by simply clicking on the image. Likewise, to indicate that the image acts as a link, a part of the link is shown in the lower left corner of the image
X’s reason for the format change is to make the publications appear more compact. Although several advertisers have shown their discontent with this decision, the South African tycoon continues and turns a deaf ear to criticism, so in principle this policy will be maintained. Users, however, can continue to manually add text to the post if they want to add context to the image or share additional comments about the article.
Musk also adds another factor that has influenced the determination to remove links from media headlines. According to the tycoon, the new measure will help reduce clickbait and the search for striking and untrue phrases that abound on the Internet. It is worth remembering that a few days ago the EU issued a serious warning to X, which it described as the largest source of fake news on the internet.
However, some analysts interpret that these are other real reasons that have pushed the social network to make this change: with this new format, Musk seeks to encourage more people to publish long articles directly on X, taking advantage of the expanded publication limit. of Blue subscribers to 25,000 characters.
