Links in replies to messages in “X” are disabled

Social network X has introduced a new tool for disabling reply links in order to reduce spam.Europe Press

social network “X” will allow you to turn off links that other users post responses to posts in order to reduce unwanted or “spam” content. The social network currently allows users to respond to publications that other people share by adding photos, videos, GIFs, polls, emojis and ‘URLs’ from other web pages.

The latter means that sometimes it splits ‘spam’. To avoid this,

Links in posts helped combat “fake news” on the platform

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social network that needs to be activated to use and which was also confirmed by the platform’s Senior Director of Security, Christopher Stanley“My team created this,” he explained on his X profile.

This new feature will limit the influence of “bots” spreading this type of content, but remember, it could also be a problem for those who want to share links to legitimate sources if they are trying to discredit false information.

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