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Blocking feature to be removed from former Twitter platform X, says Musk

Loss of protective feature may bring it into conflict with safety guidelines on App Store and Google Play

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts, Elon Musk has said in another controversial move for the company he bought last year.

The block function allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs [direct messages],” Musk said in a post on the platform, saying later: “It makes no sense.”

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