Elon Musk's X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue
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Elon Musk's X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly...

X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…

    • jay9@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      Probably so people click the link more often to find out what it’s about - which Musk then can take to publishers and say “look how much traffic we generated for you”

    • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Might just be a way to bypass some countries requiring that social media sites pay news companies when they scrape their articles and show a preview on the page? Something like that’s been passed in Canada recently and companies like Facebook and Google basically just stopped showing summaries of news on their sites to Canadians as a result.