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Fortune
Chris Morris

Twitter was reportedly throttling traffic to sites Elon didn’t like, then backtracked as soon as it was caught

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Elon Musk’s Twitter/X is catching fire after it was discovered to be throttling links to certain sites which Musk has criticized in the past.

Users who clicked links on Twitter to Facebook and the New York Times would see delays of roughly five seconds before they were transferred to those sites. After the Washington Post published a story spotlighting the practice on Tuesday, however, the site seemingly reversed course and did away with the delays.

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