Twitter bans linking to rival social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon

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Twitter's new owner Elon Musk makes another move to crack down on certain speech, after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet.

abc.net.au/news/twitter-bans-linking-rival-social-media-websites-elon-musk/101786874Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company describes as "prohibited platforms" Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.The banned platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Tribel, Nostr, Post and Donald Trump's Truth Social

It's the latest move by Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, to crack down on certain speech after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet. Twitter gave no explanation for why the blacklist included those seven websites but not others such as Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn.

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