Twitter continues to slow traffic to competing sites nearly a month after it partially pulled back from such throttling, a Markup analysis has found. One antitrust expert said the link throttling warrants an investigation by regulators into whether X’s behavior violates laws designed to ensure competitive markets. For our analysis, The Markup checked 20 websites we thought were the most likely to be targeted by X for throttling. We tested X’s links over a period of four days, requesting the links each hour. Nonetheless, X is close enough to the line that von Thun said regulators should launch antitrust investigations into its link throttling.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2023 15:13 UTC