{"id":2008230,"date":"2023-08-22T14:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-latest-proposed-change-to-his-social-platform-angers-journalists\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:54:26","slug":"elon-musks-latest-proposed-change-to-his-social-platform-angers-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-latest-proposed-change-to-his-social-platform-angers-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s social platform change angers journalists."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musks-latest-proposed-change-to-his-social-platform-angers-journalists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Elon Musk&#8217;s Controversial Plan to Change News Links on X<\/h2>\n<p>Elon Musk recently \u200dannounced his intention to revolutionize how news links appear on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-threads-colluding-with-feds-to-censor-americans-like-facebook-did-judiciary-chair-jordan-asks-zuckerberg-for-answers\/\" title=\"Did Threads collude with feds to censor Americans, similar to Facebook? Jordan, Judiciary Chair, seeks answers from Zuckerberg.\">social media\u200b platform<\/a> X (formerly known as Twitter). This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-latest-proposed-change-to-his-social-platform-angers-journalists\/\" title=\"Elon Musk's social platform change angers journalists.\">announcement immediately sparked \u200cbacklash<\/a>\u2064 from\u200d publishers \u200cand journalists.<\/p>\n<p>According to Musk, X\u2063 plans to remove the headline and text from news article links posted on the platform, instead focusing solely on the lead image. In\u2062 a tweet, he stated, &#8220;This is coming from me\u200b directly. Will\u200b greatly improve the esthetics (sic).&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/musk-says-twitter-dropping-ability-of-users-to-block-other-accounts-5475726\">Musk Says Twitter Dropping Ability\u200d of Users to Block Other Accounts<\/a> \u2064 &#8211; 8\/18\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/house-judiciary-committee-requests-interviews-with-former-twitter-and-dhs-officials-5475533\">House Judiciary Committee Requests Interviews\u200c with Former Twitter and DHS Officials<\/a> &#8211; 8\/18\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, news links on X appear as &#8220;cards&#8221; on users&#8217; \u2063timelines, featuring an image, source address, and a condensed headline. This packaging helps\u2064 attract clicks and allows publishers to reach more readers. However, with the proposed changes, users\u200c may \u200dneed to include \u200cadditional text in \u2064their posts alongside the shortened links.<\/p>\n<p>Musk aims to position \u200bX as a more relevant platform for content creators. Premium subscribers\u2064 now have the\u200c ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-nba-star-lebron-james-refuses-to-pay-8-monthly-twitter-blue-check-fees\/\" title=\"Billionaire NBA Star Lebron James Refuses to Pay  Monthly Twitter Blue Check Fees\">post longer videos<\/a>, their posts receive higher \u2063visibility, and they also receive a percentage of ad sales.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation suggests that these changes could encourage users \u200cto spend more time on X and become subscribers, rather than seeking external content. It is \u2064also believed that the shortened news posts could allow more content to appear on each user&#8217;s\u200b timeline.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This change\u200b would\u200d be disastrous for journalism, particularly independent\u200d journalism, which means democracy,&#8221; warns Jeff Sharlet, a journalism professor at \u2062Dartmouth College and bestselling author.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin\u2064 Walsh, a reporter for Crains Business \u2062Detroit, predicts that the planned change will likely drive more news outlets \u2064away from\u2064 X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Musk\u200d seems\u200d to encourage journalists to publish their \u200bcontent\u2062 directly on X instead of relying on external news websites. In a \u200bpost, he stated that journalists who desire &#8220;more\u200b freedom to write&#8221; and &#8220;higher income&#8221; should publish their articles directly on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>These developments come shortly after Musk announced that X \u200dwill be removing the ability for users to block\u2062 unwanted followers, which received negative\u200c reactions. Some users argue that this feature is necessary to prevent harassment.<\/p>\n<p>While there are differing opinions on these changes, Musk remains confident \u2063that a new and improved version\u200d of the block feature will be introduced. Only time will tell how these alterations will impact X and its user base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s announcement to alter news links on his social media platform X (previously known as Twitter) has faced swift criticism from publishers and journalists. X intends to eliminate headlines and text, opting to display only the lead image from news articles shared on the platform, as stated by Mr. Musk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2008231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}