Comment on X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue

TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jay9@lemmy.world ⁨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”

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  • TurboLag@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I see it. Horrible for the users though…

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• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Elon Musk’s mood for a few minutes.

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• micka190@lemmy.world ⁨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 summary 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.

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