Elon Musk has flagged another major change to X, formerly Twitter, which would limit the ability of people to block accounts.
Musk, who has thrown out multiple pronouncements about the future of X on his own account since buying the site, said the “block” function would be removed as a feature.
However, it could still apply to direct messages.
Currently, X users can elect to block an account, meaning its posts won’t appear in their social media timeline.
The blocked account can also no longer interact with the blocker.
The “mute” function, which will remain, only stops an X user from receiving notifications about a muted accounts posts.
Some online voiced concerns about the removal of peoples’ ability to stop abuse or avoid traumatic content in their timelines.
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And the announcement comes just days after at least two brands announced they would cease advertising on X after their content appeared on pro-fascist account.
The nonprofit news watchdog Media Matters for America documented in a report published Wednesday that ads for a host of mainstream brands have been run on the account, which has shared content celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
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Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.
Spokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account.
