X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, is marking some links to news organization NPR’s website as “unsafe” when users click through to read the latest story about an altercation between a Trump campaign staffer and an Arlington National Cemetery employee. The warning being displayed is typically applied to malicious links, like those containing malware, and other types of misleading content or spam. However, in this case, the web page being blocked is an NPR news report, raising questions about whether or not Musk’s X is actively trying to stop the news story from spreading.
If everyone could just delete Twitter, that’d be great. I don’t get how people just prioritize “there are good memes sometimes” over staying out of the metaphorical Nazi bar.
Blocking access during an election year to a well respected and accurate news outlet that has never been known to be “unsafe” seems like election interference to me.
Fuck Elon Musk.
Media outlet: “X did this horrible thing”
Also media outlet: links directly to X, giving them free revenue for doing said horrible thing
Yet the same news sites keep linking to X and keep posting to X accounts.
What do you call someone who uses a fascist-owned platform with a fascist user base? Motherfuckers need to let that shit die already.
“BuT eVeRyOnE iS tHeRe!”
And will continue to be UNTIL YOU STOP USING IT
