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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News

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Musk confirmed that posts containing links are deprioritized, renewing criticism that the platform is restricting access to external sources of information.

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Wasn't it known/confirmed since Twitter made their algorithm partially open source? (I think it was a year ago or so)
- My favorite was all the "if elon" code debacles lol. The code was hilarious.
  
  Yeah, he specifically gets boosted across the site, which is why he ended up in everyone's feeds.
  
  Could learn a lesson or two from that MySpace Tom guy. He might have been my first friend on that site, but he never made a peep after that! I respect him for that.
  
  If MySpace had lived long enough to get enshittified Tom would have been replaced by an AI chat bot who never leaves you alone.