Why Elon Musk is too late to break the media

Elon Musk killed news headlines today in the hopes that posts on X would replace links to news. He's too late.

X (formerly Twitter) is no longer showing headlines for linked stories.

In the past, pasting a link into a post on X would be auto-converted to a box showing a picture from the article and, below the picture, the headline. Now it just shows the picture, with the source’s domain in the lower left corner of the picture.

One flaw in this design was immedia…