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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – X (formerly Twitter) is a platform used by many Internet users to read news. Many media groups share their news links to the platform every day.

Currently, the news format in X consists of headlines, short news content texts, links, and photos.

Presumably, Elon Musk wants to change the format by eliminating headlines, reported from FortuneTuesday (8/22/2023).

This new policy means that posts will only display the photo and the link to the article.

Media wishing to share a text must enter it manually via the Twitter application. There are two reasons why Musk adopted this policy.

First, removing the title will free up space on the timeline to display more posts to users.

Moreover, Musk wants to “force” journalists to write their articles directly on X.

Elon Musk wants journalists to earn more

In his personal account, the billionaire claims that journalists can earn more by publishing their articles directly on X.

The rumors seem plausible, as a recent update to App X added a label that displays the website URL above the shared article image.

However, advertisers are against this change. Of course, if this change is actually implemented, the impact will be enormous for online media, writers, journalists and creators.

While clicking on an image always takes users to a website, headlines are an important ingredient in convincing people to click on a news article. Otherwise, these publications would have lost the attention of Internet users on Twitter.

This rule is similar to the one initiated by President Joko Widodo, namely Publisher Rights. The regulations were revealed during the National Press Day celebration last February. In concrete terms, regulation has been entrusted to Budi and to the deputy minister for communications and information technology, Nezar Patria, who has just been sworn in on 17th July last.

Met after the inauguration, Nezar said publishers’ rights were on the agenda. He also said he would publish the results as soon as possible.

“Included in the agenda which has been recorded and will be discussed. But we have just had the mandate, so we have to redo the map,” he explained at the time.

Google itself has officially commented on the speech. One of the points requested by Google is that the discussion on this rule involves an independent institution that can see the interests of the different parties.

For information, before Indonesia, Canada and Australia had already implemented a similar policy. Google and Facebook are threatening to block news articles on their respective platforms.

(fab/fab)