Elon Musk's X suddenly has a lot of 'articles.' I'm not sure I want to read them.

X, a place for Articles.

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• X is promoting its "articles" feature by running a $1 million contest for the most viral article.
• An article about self-help recently went viral.
• Self-contained articles on X are missing out on the vibrant conversations around news that old Twitter had.

In the past few days on X, you haven't been able to escape a certain post that's gone viral. It offers to teach you "How to fix your life in 1 day." It's an...