Elon Musk’s X is pushing ahead with controversial plans to weaken the power of its ‘block’ function. The social media network has confirmed that anyone will be able to view a user’s public ...

The new block function will counteract this, as a blocked user will be able to see if that behavior occurs and report it. X said the move allows for "greater transparency." ...

X will soon roll out a controversial change to its block function by allowing accounts to continue to view posts from users who blocked them, another update to the Elon Musk-owned platform ...

X announced on Saturday that the change is now rolling out, and many replies express displeasure, a common reply repeated by many users being that “Nobody asked for this.”. To be fair, when ...

Elon Musk said Friday that the block function will be greatly limited on X, formerly known as Twitter, stripping the social media platform of a feature long seen as protection against harassment.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. On Oct. 16, the social-media platform X, once (and still) known as Twitter, announced “a change to how the block function ...

X, formerly Twitter, is making changes to the platform's block function. Blocked users will soon be able to see the posts of the person who blocked them. It could force victims of abuse to choose ...

X, formerly Twitter, has begun rolling out an update to the Block function that lets blocked accounts view public posts. The update also lets the accounts you've blocked see your "followed" and ...

And it appears the change in the block function was enough for some users to flee to a new social media platform. X alternative Bluesky announced on Thursday that it had gained half a million new ...

Billionaire Elon Musk said Friday that he plans to end the "block" function on social media platform X. X, formerly known as Twitter, currently offers a standard block function that allows users ...

Elon Musk, billionaire tech mogul and owner of what we once knew as Twitter, said on Friday that he plans to eliminate a safety feature on the platform now known as X.. What Happened: Musk said ...

A block function exists on almost every platform because abusive content appears on all social media platforms, not just Twitter. The block function dulls the worst experiences of it. And blocking ...