X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears to be reversing the slow access to news sites on Tuesday afternoon.

  • originalucifer
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    91 year ago

    literally. claims to be about free speech, buys an open speech platform… forces everyone to pay. ‘free speech’

    • FuglyDuck
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      121 year ago

      also like the first thing he did was ban that kid that was tweeting his trips.