Big Journalism and its hangers-on still believe Twitter (now called X by its sociopath owner) is where they have to be. And as he launches insult after insult to the press and what it does, they just stay there and support him. Today's case in point:

https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/

It's clearly a combination of cowardice and calculation on the part of news orgs and the people who run them. Journalistic integrity doesn't even begin to factor into it. Which is sad, if not pathetic.

Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X

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.

Fortune
@dangillmor I see this as a belated acknowledgement by Musk that a sizeable proportion of his fanbase is functionally illiterate.