X Reportedly Tests Hiding Headlines From News Links As Musk Urges Journalists To ‘Publish Directly’ On Platform

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1. FOX Business

   Elon Musk sticks journalists in the eye with latest X change that will have major impact on newsrooms ↗ (opens FOX Business)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   News articles that appear on X will no longer show headline text, company owner Elon Musk confirmed Monday in a move that has infuriated journalists.

2. Insider

   Elon Musk says he will remove news headlines from X posts so links only show as images, because he thinks it looks better ↗ (opens Insider)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Elon Musk is reportedly pushing ahead with the plan because he believes news articles take up too much space and wants to curb clickbait, per Fortune.

3. Forbes

   X Reportedly Tests Hiding Headlines From News Links As Musk Urges Journalists To ‘Publish Directly’ On Platform ↗ (opens Forbes)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Musk reportedly wants to change how news links currently appear on Twitter by removing the headline and only displaying the article’s lead image.

4. Washington Times

   Musk wants to remove headlines from X ↗ (opens Washington Times)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   News articles will soon have a new look at Elon Musk’s X after the owner announced headlines would be removed from news articles.

5. Deadline

   Elon Musk Plans To Remove Headlines From News Article Links On Twitter/X ↗ (opens Deadline)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Elon Musk says that he plans to make another move that will complicate news media outlets effort to draw traffic to their content on Twitter/X. He confirmed a report in Fortune that the platform wi…

6. Gizmodo

   Musk Plans to Kill Link Headlines on Twitter ↗ (opens Gizmodo)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Twitter, or ‘X,’ would remove both the headline and text on article links as Musk tries to push 'journalists' to report exclusively on his app.

7. ZDNet

   X to remove headlines from news links as Elon Musk encourages journalists to publish directly on the site ↗ (opens ZDNet)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Another day, another big change at X (formerly Twitter).

8. Fortune

   Elon Musk wants to get rid of this headline ↗ (opens Fortune)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

9. New York Post

   Elon Musk to hide headlines, text from news articles shared on X to ‘improve the esthetics’ ↗ (opens New York Post)

   Published Aug 21, 2023

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   “This is coming from me directly,” Musk wrote on X.