Oh the idiocy!
Excerpt from a #Mashable article linked below:
Let's say someone owns the domain name "NetfliTwitter.com." Why would they own that domain name? Because if X is automatically changing anything that includes "Twitter.com" to "X.com," then that means posting "NetfliTwitter.com" on X would make it appear in posts as "Netflix.com," the popular movie streaming service. And if a user clicked the linked "Netflix.com" text that appears in that post, it would really take them to "NetfliTwitter.com." Because while X is changing the text that the user wrote, the URL it links and directs to remains the same as the user posted.
Source: mashable.com/article/twitter-d…
X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs
A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.Matt Binder (Mashable)
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