X Deliberately Blocks Link Access To Instagram Competitors And News Sites Hated By Elon Musk

X is claimed to slow down access to third-party sites. (photo: dock. X)

JAKARTA - Twitter's rebranding platform, X is claimed to slow access to third-party sites. So far, the average affected is online media and its competing social networks, such as Instagram.

This incident causes users X who click on the link will switch to another site or open an empty screen that lasts for a few seconds.

Among the news publications, including the New York Times, Reuters, Instagram, Blue Sky and other social networks. Allegedly because they often criticize X owner Elon Musk for his controversy.

Musk earlier this year clashed with the New York Times over his refusal to pay for his platform's new paid verification program, and he called for the news site to be canceled.

Apparently, the delay only had an impact on the link with t.co, a service that processes and improves the link posted to X.

According to news circulating, this problem has been fixed with an open link within a second of being clicked.

X's move was not surprising, because in December 2022, the microblogging site decided to ban links to its rival social media services Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon, which were later canceled.

The platform has also faced a series of outages and technical issues in recent months affecting the user's ability to read Tweets, view photos, and click on links after Musk cut company employees and reduce infrastructure spending. This was quoted from The Guardian and CNN International, Wednesday, August 16.