Under the new policy, links to content on Facebook and Instagram are prohibited, as well as links to content on emerging Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon and Post. The rule also covers Truth Social, the Twitter clone backed by former President Donald Trump. Twitter’s move signals a shift toward a more closed environment, one that still accepts incoming traffic from other sites but makes it more difficult for users to leave Twitter’s website for other destinations.
Amid the backlash to the journalists suspensions, Twitter quietly began blocking links to Mastodon. Now, that practice has been formalized into official Twitter policy, a move that could further raise eyebrows among Twitter’s regulators. As part of Twitter’s new policy, users may not “link out” to social media platforms subject to the restrictions.
Excelente 👏🏽
The horror!!! Twitter exercising its right to control the parameters of its site. I'm down with that. Keep the Facebook bottom feeders on their own social media site.
This is like a grocery store saying they won’t sell food from farms!
He knows we can just Google and get an entire list of alternatives, right?
.uhhhh - why are you being dishonest? Twitter is only stopping the accounts whose ‘sole’ purpose is to link to other sites. You do not allow comments on your site to link to other news sites … Think about your hypocrisy here. Have you lost the ability to report the news at cnn
Yeah, it's about the defections 🤦🏼♂️
The New York Times quoted HadiQaemi,The director of human rights in Iran,as saying that agents in Tehran identified and arrested a fourteen years old girl for removing her hijab at school through cameras, she was taken to the hospital with a severe vaginal tear and she died there
If you don’t like how twitter is run then just build your own twitter. You have your own platform to promote it. Building your own twitter should be easy right?
It’s so fun to watch CNN implode….Karma. Deserve every bit of it.
This man is a genuis
Does CNN charge for their commercials? Quit being hypocrites for a change
Ytrash tweets.
Just the freest of speech
other people who advertise theire products pay for theire name, banner( when having online services) or products to show on peopels sites why shouldnt you guys do the same? specifically if your a news network putting its own services behind a paywall
Or because he doesn’t want free advertising for competitors, free speech and free advertising are NOT synonymous
That’s fake news
Actually, it’s about free advertisement, if CNN knew anything about business, they’d have made a fortune off the Democrats alone!
It’s not “ link “ it’s advertisement . Never seen on cnn sign Fox News
elonmusk bought Twitter for one and only reason to satisfy his unsatisfiable ego & to elevate his political status with Republicans. Musk does not care about people, he does not care about fairness or honesty or even basic decency. All he care about his ego & being a dictator.
Wow. Duly noted.
We know Twitter already posted long before you did. But you're always last when it comes to news.
Good for him
Why is anyone do damm worried about a gossip platform like twitter or Facebook !!!
More mainstream media lies enemyofthepeople
From the people that didn’t care how conservatives were treated for years on Twitter
I thought you guys were leaving twitter
CNN = Fake News
CNn is fake news
What about freedom of speech elonmusk
Crappy reporting, as usual. This is NOT what Twitter said. Twitter said that accounts that SOLELY promote other sites (so the only reason they post to Twitter is to direct users elsewhere) would have their accounts removed.
HELLO APPLE AND GOOGLE! IT IS BOUT TIME YOU DID SOMETHING ABOUT THE TWITTER APP!
Twitter is the place to be right now because I'm here
Nothing screams free speech like more restrictions 😂
Tweeter is a private company, it can do whatever it wants.
Interesting you’re very quick to report on Twitter only when it benefits you. You constantly commit the sin of omission and People trust you less and less everyday.
How pathetically desperate....🤣
Wouldn’t be funny if these other platforms ban links only from Twitter. Censorship could be a dangerous doble edge tool
Smacks of desperation.
CNN...so this is probably BS
elonmusk
Be careful, CNN. Elon might banned you if he got his feelings hurt.
Sh**-Lib Sycophants like cnn upset that Matt Taibbi broke a news story about real power centers & now those dweebs at MSNBC, CNN, ABC etc. are so desperate 2 discredit it ...
I don’t get it. For example posting CNN article from twitter into FB is that banned?
It's a private company. they can do what they want
That may make it a little more difficult to find our people to follow, but it certainly isn't going to stop defections to other platforms. twitter
I wonder how many people will be left after all the banning and suspensions are done as this is just starting....
I don't know if this is a calculated move or not but it does appear too risky. The introduction of frictions is what will cause defections. There's also the network effect disadvantage that twitter might suffer.
George and Laura Bush were attacked away from the largest Army Base in all of the Nation but on it? I don't know.
Unethical, like so many other decisions. Terrible platform from what I can tell.
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Dick-tator move.
Private company, if you dont like it build your own
Run like a business in a fascist country.
Does McDonalds allow Burger King to advertise on their property?
So much for free speech absolutism.
Good try ! elonmusk is doing what he needs to Twitter because of the massive corruption in our government and mainstream media . He can't leave any openings for the fbi to link into his accounts. He can't trust anyone! And now America knows why!
To hell with uPresident with ur directives, burns to ashes u re nt God.
Oh no 😝
Lol
Anyone else recall CNN sharing MSNBC news stories?
Such free speech by the libertarian techbro.