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The context collapse has escalated at the site formerly known as Twitter: Starting sometime yesterday, the previews that X automatically generates of shared links now strips them of headlines and displays only the lead art and the link’s domain name in the bottom-left corner.

For example, the preview card for my share of the story I wrote yesterday about Android 14 consisted of a header image we ran from Google PR, stamped with “pcmag.com.” Previously, the preview card would have included that image but also the headline and a snippet of the story’s text, which made it obvious you were looking at a shared link and not an attached photo. 

The move, which Elon Musk argued in August would “greatly improve the [a]esthetics” of X, both strips possibly crucial context from posts…

Posts being shared online feature what appears to be a headline on the Irish Independent’s website saying: “Climate crisis explainer: Why is July so cold while everywhere else on the planet is burning? Prof. Luke O’Neill says Ireland is suffering from asymptomatic global warming.”

The part that says “asymptomatic global warming” has been underlined in red.

But the screenshot is not real. No part of that headline has appeared on the newspaper’s website.

The phrase “asymptomatic global warming” hasn’t appeared on the website either.

The person mentioned in the fake headline, Professor Luke O’Neill, is a real professor of biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin. 

He has been quoted by the Irish Independent…