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Twitter to hide news headlines from link previews (9to5mac.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to...

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[–] JoeClu 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn't too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that's what Elon says anyway; I'm not in web commerce so I don't know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?

I think news companies are going bust?