Published By: Saurabh Verma
Last Updated: October 05, 2023, 20:33 IST
Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
In September, the European Commission mentioned X had the next ratio of misinformation and disinformation than another social media.
The tycoon has lengthy railed in opposition to the “legacy media” and claims X, previously Twitter, is a greater supply of data
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has stripped headlines from information articles shared by customers, in a transfer prone to additional worsen relations with media teams.
The tycoon has lengthy railed in opposition to the “legacy media” and claims X, previously Twitter, is a greater supply of data.
However, he mentioned the newest change was for “aesthetic” causes — information and different hyperlinks now seem solely as photos with no accompanying textual content.
Musk took over Twitter final yr in a $44 billion deal and has since renamed it X, sacked 1000’s of workers and drawn criticism for permitting banned conspiracy theorists and extremists again on the platform, sending advertisers fleeing.
He has additionally banned — and reinstated — varied journalists with mainstream retailers together with the Washington Post and CNN, in addition to showing to delay posts from accounts together with the New York Times.
“I almost never read legacy news anymore,” Musk posted on Tuesday.
“What’s the point of reading 1,000 words about something that was already posted on X several days ago?”
– Souring relations –
Some media teams have stopped posting to X altogether due to the rise in hate speech and the behaviour of Musk.
AFP and different French information retailers launched a authorized case in early August accusing X of copyright breaches.
When the modifications to hyperlinks have been first mooted in August, Musk posted: “This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.”
The modifications seem to have been launched regularly this week.
Instead of seeing a headline together with an image, customers now see solely an image with a small watermark.
The modifications introduced a great deal of criticism, journalist Tom Warren of The Verge web site posting on X: “It’s the latest in a long line of dumb changes on this platform.”
Some customers have already commented that it’s now troublesome to tell apart between information and other forms of data, which is prone to elevate questions concerning the trustworthiness of the location.
In September, the European Commission mentioned X had the next ratio of misinformation and disinformation than another social media.
The souring relationship between media and tech firms isn’t restricted to X.
Both Google and Meta have pushed again in opposition to legal guidelines forcing them to pay media firms to indicate tales.
The modifications are having a real-world impact, with Axios information website reporting on Tuesday that referrals to media web sites from X and Meta’s Facebook had collapsed prior to now three years.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
