"One antitrust expert said the link throttling warrants an investigation by regulators into whether X’s behavior violates laws designed to ensure competitive markets."<p>Likely... this won't fly in the EU
This is great reporting, and also a pretty clever method of sabotage. I don't think I've heard of anyone doing this before and I'm not sure I would have thought of it myself. Another entry in the long list of reasons these link interceptor domains that social media sites and newsletters use are awful.