The title is misleading. X isn’t blocking NPR, but was displaying a warning about a potentially unsafe link on one article from NPR. I don’t see any evidence th

The title is misleading. X isn’t blocking NPR, but was displaying a warning about a potentially unsafe link on one article from NPR. I don’t see any evidence that there is something malicious here; it could just be some automation acting incorrectly. NPR did change the URL and title of the article, by the way, and I wonder if that triggered something. All that said, I am against any type of link blocking or warning functionality in the first place. This type of message is at best patronizing and at worst, censorship. Reddit does this, blocking links to various domains entirely or shadow banning submissions or comments with those links. I have seen their automation do this even in more nuanced ways, for example blocking certain Wikipedia links to articles that they’ve deemed unacceptable, instead of the whole domain. Other social media - including Twitter pre-acquisition, Meta, etc - all variously show such warnings from time to time or block certain domains entirely, both in submissions/posts and comments. In my experience, the blocking on those platforms (not warnings but outright blocks) has had a political bias towards the left and against moderate or right wing views across these platforms. I find it hypocritical that people who have supported over the top censorship for years are now so offended and upset when it happens on Twitter/X, even if it is accidental and not malicious. Regardless, I think Twitter/X does owe an explanation in such situations and should act quickly to correct it.