Instead of seeing a headline with an image, users now only see the image with a small watermark.
The changes were widely criticized, with Tom Warren, a journalist for The Verge website, posting on X: “This is the latest in a long line of stupid changes on this platform.”
Some users have already commented that it is now difficult to distinguish between news and other types of information, which is likely to raise questions about the site’s reliability.
In September, the European Commission said that Facebook had a higher proportion of misinformation and disinformation than any other social media.
The sourness between media and tech companies is not limited to X alone.
Both Google and Meta have opposed laws forcing media companies to pay to show stories.
The changes are having a real-world impact, with the Axios news site reporting Tuesday that X and Meta’s referrals from Facebook to media websites had collapsed over the past three years.