{"id":30521,"date":"2024-06-12T00:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=30521"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:43:44","slug":"elon-musk-rolls-out-another-cool-x-feature-to-protect-free-speech-and-promote-user-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=30521","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Rolls Out Another Cool X Feature to Protect Free Speech and Promote User Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business mogul Elon Musk has confirmed that the X platform will hide \u201clikes\u201d from public view to protect user privacy and protect free speech.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/11\/24176247\/x-likes-hidden-private-rollout\">The Verge<\/a>, the change will be rolled out from Tuesday:<\/p>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">X is rolling out\u00a0private likes\u00a0as soon as today, according to a source at the company. That means what users like on the platform will be hidden by default, which is already an option for\u00a0X\u2019s Premium subscribers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">A few weeks ago, X\u2019s\u00a0director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users\u2019 public image\u00a0\u2014 because \u201cmany people feel discouraged\u201d to like \u201cedgy\u201d content. The Likes tab on user profiles will be gone. Users will still be able to see who liked their posts and the like count for all posts, but they will not see the people who liked someone else\u2019s post,\u00a0according\u00a0to X senior software engineer Enrique Barragan. (He also\u00a0hinted at the launch today\u00a0in a post.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p>Musk confirmed the change on his own X feed, pointing out that it was \u201cimportant to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3O1bG7wIGe\">https:\/\/t.co\/3O1bG7wIGe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1800601849973576068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The move may help defeat cancel culture, with many conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/08\/18\/toronto-maple-leafs-fire-coach-liking-conservative-social-media-posts\/\">losing<\/a> their jobs, positions of reputations over content that they had \u201cliked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over the platform in October 2022, Musk has rolled out a range of new features including ad revenue payouts for creators, subscriptions and account verificiation.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, he has ended the previous censorship regime under former CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/12\/breaking-elon-musk-reinstates-alex-jones-social-media\/\">reinstated<\/a> thousands of previously banned accounts, including that of The Gateway Pundit and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/06\/elon-musk-rolls-another-cool-x-feature-protect\/\">Elon Musk Rolls Out Another Cool X Feature to Protect Free Speech and Promote User Privacy<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business mogul Elon Musk has confirmed that the X platform will hide \u201clikes\u201d from public view to protect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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