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Chris Morris

As bot battles continue, Elon Musk's X adds feature to block links in replies

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As the site formerly known as Twitter continues to fight against spam on its platform, the Elon Musk-led company is working on a feature that will let users disable links in responses to their posts.

App researcher Nima Owji was the first to spot the feature late last week. Christopher Stanley, senior director for security engineering at X, confirmed its authenticity in a reply, writing "My team built this."

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