Ann Lipton"journalist-friendly" - definitely the first thing I think of when it comes to Elon Musk
Luis Villa@annmlipton I am no fan of how modern American journalism abuses headlines, but, uh, what???
@luis_in_brief I have no idea but I'm pretty sure context-less images aren't going to get much traffic.
RenéeAll my nonexistent shitcoins on the next step being charging orgs by the word to have those headlines/descriptions put back.
@reneestephen @annmlipton that’s so evil it might just be right
SweetLlamaMyth@luis_in_brief @reneestephen @annmlipton
It'd be less effective than plaintext headlines (especially for accessibility purposes), but what stops outlets from just baking the headline into the image?
What's X's unhinged response to that though?
* Censoring all images that contain any text? Imagine accidentally banning all memes on a social network.
* Detecting cases where text on the image matches the headline, and suppressing/billing for those?
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@annmlipton "What are words for?"
cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴@annmlipton Why are people still using the #deadbirdsite ?
David B@annmlipton That's some #enshittification right there
Quinn Comendant@annmlipton @briankrebs 😣 Among other reasons, how will I know if an article is clickbait?
Dan@annmlipton so not only will “X” now hide the link url behind a t_co short link, they are also going to hide the article contents?
So basically every link is now Russian roulette to see if it is malicious or a real online article?
Cool. So I’ll just stop clicking links then.
I am sure his advertisers will love this move.
@annmlipton But I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I assume this is not some malicious anti-journalism rant to get back at making fun of him all weekend for the anti-block move.
But rather he fired anyone who can fix the system that generates the text and it is currently breaking too often. So he is pretending it breaking is “all part of the plan”
nobletrout@Danielsand @annmlipton people should stop giving him any benefit doubts. He used them up a long time ago.