News or meme?
Source: Nieman Lab
After Elon Musk aXes headlines, it's hard to tell.
If you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to remaining traffic and make sharing news more complicated, you couldn't do much better than removing headlines from posts.
By SOPHIE CULPEPPER
The saga of how Elon Musk has undermined news at X (RIP Twitter) in the year since his chaotic and evil takeover of the company is a long one. Switching from verification to paid Twitter Blue 1 system; labeling NPR as "state-affiliated media" and limiting the (already limited) flow of traffic to news websites from links posted on the platform, to name a few highlights.
But if you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to remaining traffic and make sharing news more complicated, you couldn't do much better than removing headlines from posts, which Musk did on Wednesday. Here's what it looks like in the news:
