{"id":5604,"date":"2025-02-17T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/x-blocks-signal-link-sharing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:16:37","slug":"x-blocks-signal-link-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/x-blocks-signal-link-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"X blocks Signal link sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk is targeting federal employees and organizations through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Now, Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal that allows users to contact others directly, as reported by the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disruptionist.com\/p\/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disruptionist<\/a>. Federal workers have utilized Signal to discreetly report relevant and hazardous activities.<\/p>\n<p>When attempting to post a Signal.me link in a direct message, public post, or on their profile page, users receive error messages such as, &#8220;This request appears to be automated. To safeguard our users from spam and other malicious activity, we cannot complete this action at this time. Please try again later.&#8221; Other responses include, &#8220;We cannot complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as potentially harmful.&#8221; Engadget has verified the block through testing.<\/p>\n<p>Users who try to click on existing Signal.me links are presented with a warning message stating, &#8220;Warning: this link may be unsafe. The link you are attempting to access has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with X&#8217;s URL Policy.&#8221; They have the option to ignore the warning and proceed to the link.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is collaborating with President Trump to reduce the number of federal workers across the board. Over 9,500 employees were fired on Friday, February 14, alone, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/thousands-fired-trump-musk-take-ax-us-government-offices-2025-02-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/x-blocks-users-from-sharing-links-to-signal-170642686.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is targeting federal employees and organizations through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Now, Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL used by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[64,566,63,121,515],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-gear","tag-musk","tag-news","tag-trump","tag-x"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/a30c5700-670f-11ef-bf0a-d01f66157f5a.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}